observable

UK /əbˈzɜː.və.bəl/ US /əbˈzɜː.və.bəl/
adj 2noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Able to be observed.

The strange new star was at the edge of the observable universe.

In 1913, in the same year that Mother's Day became a nationally observable holiday, the American people passed another milestone: for the first time in American history more than one person in one thousand was divorced.

2

Deserving to be observed; worth regarding; remarkable.

noun

1

Any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties

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 expected value one may recover something resembling a classical observable.

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