OBSERVABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does observable mean? 

• OBSERVABLE (adjective)
  The adjective OBSERVABLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of being seen or noticed

  Familiarity information: OBSERVABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBSERVABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being seen or noticed

Synonyms:

discernible; evident; observable

Context example:

an observable change in behavior

Similar:

noticeable (capable or worthy of being noticed)

Derivation:

observe (observe with care or pay close attention to)

observe (discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of)

observe (watch attentively)

 Context examples 

According to recent estimates, there are as many as 700 million trillion terrestrial planets in the observable universe.

(Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth, University of Cambridge)

Peering 90% of the way across the observable Universe, the Miller team observed a galaxy protocluster named SPT2349-56.

(Ancient Galaxy Megamergers, ESO)

The observable response of a person.

(Personal Behavior, NCI Thesaurus)

Observable properties of genetic character, changed or induced by a modification.

(Phenocopy Alteration, NCI Thesaurus)

A distinctive observable characteristic of an object.

(Physical Marking, NCI Thesaurus)

The observable characteristics in an individual resulting from the expression of genes; the clinical presentation of an individual with a particular genotype.

(Phenotype, NCI Dictionary)

Based on fact or observable phenomena and not on personal feeling or bias.

(Objective, NCI Thesaurus)

A statistical model in which the system being modeled has unknown parameters, but the hidden parameters can be determined from the observable parameters.

(Hidden Markov Model, NCI Thesaurus)

An event or sequence of events that constitute a round or succession of observable phenomena, recurring usually at regular or approximately regular time intervals and in the same sequence.

(Cycle, NCI Thesaurus)

Because the galactic core is so far away, the light of the forming galaxy that is observable from Earth was actually created 11 billion years ago, just 3 billion years after the Big Bang.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)