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ob⋅ser⋅va⋅tion

[ob-zur-vey-shuh

–noun

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.

a.	the measurement of the altitude or azimuth of a heavenly body for navigational purposes.

b.	the information obtained by such a measurement.

11.	Obsolete. observance, as of the law.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L observātiōn- (s. of observātiō), equiv. to observāt(us) (ptp. of observāre to observe ) + -iōn- -ion

Synonyms:
3. attention. 8. pronouncement, opinion. See remark.

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ob·ser·va·tion (ŏb'zər-vā'shən)

1. The act or faculty of observing.
2. The fact of being observed.
3. The act of noting and recording something, such as a phenomenon, with instruments.
4. The result or record of such notation: a meteorological observation.
1. The act of noting and recording something, such as a phenomenon, with instruments.
2. The result or record of such notation: a meteorological observation.
A comment or remark. See Synonyms at comment.
An inference or a judgment that is acquired from or based on observing.

ob'ser·va'tion·al adj., ob'ser·va'tion·al·ly adv.

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