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Marked vs Observable - What's the difference?

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Marked is a related term of observable.


As adjectives the difference between marked and observable

is that marked is while observable is able to be observed.

As a noun observable is

(physics) any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties.

marked

English

Etymology 1

From (mark) (noun)

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a visible or identifying mark.
  • # Of a playing card: having a secret mark on the back for cheating.
  • Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous.
    • The eighth century BC saw a marked increase in the general wealth of Cyprus.
  • (linguistics) Of a word, form, or phoneme: distinguished by a positive feature.
    • e.g. in author'' and ''authoress , the latter is marked for its gender by a suffix.
  • singled out; suspicious; treated with hostility; the object of vengeance.
    • A marked man.
    Usage notes
    * This adjectival sense of this word is sometimes written , rather than being silent, as in the verb form. This usage is largely restricted to poetry and other works in which it is important that the adjective’s disyllabicity be made explicit.

    Etymology 2

    See (mark) (verb)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mark)

    • Anagrams

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    observable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be observed.
  • * The strange new star was at the edge of the observable universe
  • Deserving to be observed.
  • * Easter is an observable holiday

    • Noun

    (wikipedia observable) (en noun)
  • (physics) Any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties
    • Temperature is an observable but entropy is derived.
    In quantum mechanics, observables''' correspond to Hermitian operators. Also, they act a lot like random variables. Taking their average one may recover something resembling a classical '''observable .
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