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Observation   /ˌɑbzərvˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Observation

noun
1.
The act of making and recording a measurement.
2.
The act of observing; taking a patient look.  Synonyms: observance, watching.
3.
A remark expressing careful consideration.  Synonyms: reflection, reflexion.
4.
Facts learned by observing.
5.
The act of noticing or paying attention.  Synonyms: notice, observance.



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"Observation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Parravicin attended by his companions, and Disbrowe accompanied by a military friend, whom he accidentally encountered. Each party taking a coach, they soon reached the ground, a retired spot completely screened from observation by trees. The preliminaries were soon arranged, for neither would admit of delay. The conflict then commenced with great fury on both sides; but Parravicin, in spite of his passion, observed far more caution than his antagonist; ...
— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume I (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz
... said Mr. Clifford. "Springtime and harvest are sure. After over half a century's observation I have noted that, no matter what the weather may have been, Nature always catches up with the season about the middle or ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... a certain man in the Government employ, and went down to a Government building, situated on the Battery near South Ferry. He had gotten himself up as a night-watchman, hoping in that way to escape observation. ...
— The Dock Rats of New York • "Old Sleuth"
... scattered Javelin crew for fire fighting. The attack on the Municipal Building and on Hunters' Hall had been postponed, but it wasn't going to be abandoned. Oscar and Professor Hartzenbosch and Dad and a couple of others were planning some sort of an observation force of a few men for each place, until the fire had been gotten out or under control. Glenn Murell decided he'd go out with me, at least as far as the fire, so we went down to the vehicle port and got the jeep out. Main City Level Broadway was almost deserted; ...
— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper
... felt a glow of delight in this achievement such as no words can describe. They marched on their way with a swinging stride, as if they stood on air. First they had the keen professional delight of having built up by their own observation a theory which proved true in every particular save one—that the blood found on the scene of the accident had flowed from a cut in the arm, and not in the head. But that was a mere detail; in every item that mattered ...
— The Wolf Patrol - A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts • John Finnemore


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