Perceived vs Observable - What's the difference?

perceived | observable |

As adjectives the difference between perceived and observable

is that perceived is generally recognized to be true while observable is able to be observed.

As a verb perceived

is past tense of perceive.

As a noun observable is

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

perceived

English

Adjective

(-)

Generally recognized to be true.

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As seen or understood by an individual.

Derived terms

* perceivedness

Verb

(head)

(perceive)

The alert officer perceived a dim shape in the distance.

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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