n]
| 1. | an act or instance of noticing or perceiving. |
| 2. | an act or instance of regarding attentively or watching. |
| 3. | the faculty or habit of observing or noticing. |
| 4. | notice: to escape a person's observation. |
| 5. | 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. |
| 6. | the information or record secured by such an act. |
| 7. | something that is learned in the course of observing things: My observation is that such clouds mean a storm. |
| 8. | a remark, comment, or statement based on what one has noticed or observed. |
| 9. | the condition of being observed. |
| 10. | Navigation.
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| 11. | Obsolete. observance, as of the law. |
ob·ser·va·tion (ŏb'zər-vā'shən) n.
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