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Observable vs Observability - What's the difference?

observable | observability |

As nouns the difference between observable and observability

is that observable is any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties while observability is the state of being observable.

As an adjective observable

is able to be observed.

observable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be observed.
  • * The strange new star was at the edge of the observable universe
  • Deserving to be observed.
  • * Easter is an observable holiday
  • Noun

    (wikipedia observable) (en noun)
  • (physics) Any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties
  • Temperature is an observable but entropy is derived.
    In quantum mechanics, observables''' correspond to Hermitian operators. Also, they act a lot like random variables. Taking their average one may recover something resembling a classical '''observable .
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    observability

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia observability)
  • (uncountable) The state of being observable
  • (countable) A measure of the extent to which something is observable