Definition:
- (n.) The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
- (n.) The result of an act, or of acts, of observing; view; reflection; conclusion; judgment.
- (n.) Hence: An expression of an opinion or judgment upon what one has observed; a remark.
- (n.) Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
- (n.) The act of recognizing and noting some fact or occurrence in nature, as an aurora, a corona, or the structure of an animal.
- (n.) Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc.
- (n.) The information so acquired.
Compare observation with other words:
experiment vs. observation
experimentation vs. observation
judgment vs. observation
observation vs. reek
observation vs. outlook
observation vs. value
deviation vs. observation
observation vs. supervision
observation vs. watching
observation vs. science
introspection vs. observation
idea vs. observation
observation vs. telespectroscope
astroscopy vs. observation
feriation vs. observation
dichroscopic vs. observation
observation vs. spectation
objective vs. observation
notification vs. observation
examination vs. observation
observation vs. optional
evaluation vs. observation
adherence vs. observation
compliance vs. observation
activity vs. observation
examine vs. observation
finding vs. observation
detection vs. observation
celebration vs. observation
observation vs. scrutiny
attention vs. observation
awareness vs. observation
maintop vs. observation
anthroposcopy vs. observation
observation vs. observational
fieldwork vs. observation
austromancy vs. observation
note vs. observation
inspection vs. observation
fault vs. observation
aerology vs. observation
maxim vs. observation
observation vs. vigil
observation vs. watchtower
convent vs. observation
observation vs. realism
evident vs. observation
observation vs. squat
evidence vs. observation
observation vs. surveillance
heed vs. observation
empiricism vs. observation
observation vs. protocol
equation vs. observation
avisement vs. observation
await vs. observation
observation vs. statistics
hypothesis vs. observation
observation vs. observer
observant vs. observation
observation vs. observatory
judgement vs. observation
observance vs. observation
observation vs. record
observation vs. remark
event vs. observation
observation vs. recording
noting vs. observation
observation vs. observe
fact vs. observation
observation vs. observing
act vs. observation
observation vs. subjective
catch vs. observation
art vs. observation
blue vs. observation
interpretation vs. observation
inference vs. observation