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Visitable vs Observable - What's the difference?

visitable | observable |

As adjectives the difference between visitable and observable

is that visitable is capable of being visited 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.

visitable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Capable of being visited.
    • Because of the dangers of crumbling masonry, the castle turrets are no longer visitable by the public.

    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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