Definitions for observation

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observation ob·ser·va·tion

Spelling: [ob-zur-vey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌɒb zɜrˈveɪ ʃən/

Observation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 1471 anagrams from letters in observation (abeinoorstv).

Definitions for observation

noun

1. an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
2. an act or instance of regarding attentively or watching.
3. the faculty or habit of observing or noticing.
4. notice:
5. an act or instance of viewing or noting a fact or occurrence for some scientific or other special purpose:
6. the information or record secured by such an act.
7. something that is learned in the course of observing things:
8. a remark, comment, or statement based on what one has noticed or observed.
9. the condition of being observed.
10. Navigation. the measurement of the altitude or azimuth of a heavenly body for navigational purposes. the information obtained by such a measurement.
11. Obsolete. observance, as of the law.

Origin of observation

1350-1400; Middle English Latin observātiōn- (stem of observātiō), equivalent to observāt(us) (past participle of observāre to observe) + -iōn-

Examples for observation

My field of observation has been at home, here in America; but it has been the same in France.

By observation, the elevation of this encampment is 2,250 feet.

Barack Obama was not the first Liberal to make this observation.

I freely say that the tendency of my thought, based on observation, is to conservatism.

She was conveyed to the palace in a cedar carriage, carefully screened from observation.

That brings us back to the observation of a pair of black holes in the process of dismembering a star in a distant galaxy.

By observation, the camp was in latitude 31 degrees 42 minutes South.

To make matters worse, it is my observation that these policies do not hit all parents equally.

He was giving a little history lesson about the 18th century and making an observation, a promise—or a threat—for the future.

The only gauge of normality that young people have is their observation of each other.