Observational vs Surveillance - What's the difference?
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(science) Based on or pertaining to scientific observation.
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Pertaining to observation in general.
Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.
(military, espionage) Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
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(legal) In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.
As an adjective observational
is based on or pertaining to scientific observation.As a noun surveillance is
close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.observational
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Adjective
(en adjective)- An alternative way of defending the proposal to conflate NP MOVEMENT with XP MOVEMENT would be to question the observational adequacy of the claim that NP MOVEMENT only ever has NP constituents as its target. Sentences such as the following (from Radford (1981), p. 210) might be used to support the claim that NP MOVEMENT can indeed ‘raise? constituents other than NP:
(23) (a) [AP Rather plump''] seems — to be how he likes his girlfriends
(23) (b) [PP ''In Paris''] seems — to be where they first met
(23) (c) [ADVP ''A little too casually''] seems — to have been how he addressed the judge
(23) (d) [CP ''For the Prime Minister to resign ] would seem — to be unthinkable
surveillance
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(wikipedia surveillance)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance , intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.}}