Dictionary Entry
observation
observation is a 11-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 19 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
- 2noun
The result of an act, or of acts, of observing; view; reflection; conclusion; judgment.
- 3noun
Hence: An expression of an opinion or judgment upon what one has observed; a remark.
- 4noun
Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
- 5noun
The act of recognizing and noting some fact or occurrence in nature, as an aurora, a corona, or the structure of an animal.
- 6noun
Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc.
- 7noun
The information so acquired.
- 8noun
the act of observing; taking a patient look
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- 9noun
the act of making and recording a measurement
- 10noun
the act of noticing or paying attention
"he escaped the notice of the police"
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- 11noun
facts learned by observing
"he reported his observations to the mayor"
- 12noun
a remark expressing careful consideration
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