observation

Plural

observations

1. 1.The act of observing, and the fact of being observed (see observance)

   • The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.

2. 2.The act of noting and recording some event; or the record of such noting.

3. 3.A remark or comment.

   • To observations which ourselves we make / We grow more partial for the observer's sake.

4. 4.A judgement based on observing.

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