Unmistakable vs Observable - What's the difference?
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unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
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
(physics) Any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties
As adjectives the difference between unmistakable and observable
is that unmistakable is unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else while observable is able to be observed.As a noun observable is
any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties.unmistakable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable .
observable
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Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(wikipedia observable) (en noun)- 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 .