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observation

/ob-zur-vey-shuhn/US // ˌɒb zɜrˈveɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌɒbzəˈveɪʃən) //

观察,观测,观察结果,观察力

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
    • : an act or instance of regarding attentively or watching.
    • : the faculty or habit of observing or noticing.
    • : notice: to escape a person's observation.
    • : an act or instance of viewing or noting a fact or occurrence for some scientific or other special purpose: the observation of blood pressure under stress.
    • : the information or record secured by such an act.
    • : something that is learned in the course of observing things: My observation is that such clouds mean a storm.
    • : a remark, comment, or statement based on what one has noticed or observed.
    • : the condition of being observed.
    • : Navigation. the measurement of the altitude or azimuth of a heavenly body for navigational purposes.the information obtained by such a measurement.
    • : Obsolete. observance, as of the law.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounattention, scrutiny
Forms: observations
Synonyms

Examples

  • Decision science expert Annie Duke and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman suggest this may be because data-native individuals are adept at assembling disparate observations and facts into a credible narrative.

  • Averill on the July 23 Zoom call echoed Pridgen’s observations about the pandemic’s impact.

  • Substantiating a record involves an international committee of atmospheric scientists poring over the original observations, the equipment used to make it and the calibration practices.

  • Those observations revealed prominent dips in particular wavelengths of ultraviolet sunlight that had been absorbed by the ozone, Youngblood, Arney and colleagues report online August 6 in the Astronomical Journal.

  • While he says their observations suggest some thin gaiters might be problematic, “the press coverage has careened out of control” for a study testing a measuring technique and that looked at just one mask of each type.

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

  • Now, a new observation seems to show that black holes also behave according to their place in the cosmic web.

  • In Alabama, an arrested 19-year-old shoplifter got gangrene and died naked on the floor of a “medical observation cell.”

  • Third, the virus could not be found in sputum, further supporting the clear observation that airborne spread does not occur.

  • Scientific observation, rather than being a place of respite from fear, itself has become something else to rail against.

  • With Bacon, experientia does not always mean observation; and may mean either experience or experiment.

  • A delightful instance of this fell under my own observation, as I was walking on Hampstead Heath.

  • He, therefore, did as he said; made no further observation, but conducted himself to his young friend with grave distance.

  • Impersonation may be more easily achieved intellectually, requiring only keen observation and the power of imitation.

  • But the observation he thoughtlessly uttered in French seemed to excite the peasant's attention.