Ostensible vs Observable - What's the difference?
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Apparent, evident; meant for open display.
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Appearing as such; being such in appearance; professed, supposed (rather than demonstrably true or real).
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
(physics) Any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties
Ostensible is a related term of observable.
As adjectives the difference between ostensible and observable
is that ostensible is apparent, evident; meant for open display while observable is able to be observed.As a noun observable is
(physics) any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties.ostensible
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(en adjective)- Motives, of course, may be mixed; but this only means that a man aims at a variety of goals by means of the same course of action. Similarly a man may have a strong motive or a weak one, an ulterior motive or an ostensible one.
- In witch-trials the conflict was officially defined as between the accused and God, or between the accused and the Catholic (later Protestant) church, as God's earthly representative. [...]
Behind the ostensible conflict of the witch-trial lay the usual conflicts of social class, values, and human relationships.
- The ostensible reason for his visit to New York was to see his mother, but the real reason was to get to the Yankees game the next day.
Derived terms
* ostensiblyAntonyms
* (meant for open display)References
* ----observable
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(en adjective)Noun
(wikipedia observable) (en noun)- 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 .