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# observable

«observable» in Mova's school dictionary: **able to be seen or noticed** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (observable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Observable means able to be seen or noticed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observable/#m1)

2) (science) An observable fact is one you can check by looking, measuring or testing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons: observable changes in an experiment (colour, bubbles, temperature). In astronomy: the observable universe.

### examples

- The change in colour was easily observable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observable/#x1)
- Write down every observable change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observable/#x2)
- The observable universe is the part we can see from Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observable/#x3)
- There was no observable difference between the two plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observable/#x4)
- Melting ice is an observable change of state. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observable/#x5)
- Bacteria are not observable without a microscope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observable/#x6)

### note

From «observe» + «-able»; drop the e. In science, an observation is what you notice; a conclusion is what you work out from it.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «observable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/observable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.