Usually means: Noticing details using senses, systematically.
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  1. observation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. observation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. observation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. observation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. observation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Observation, observation: Wordnik
  7. observation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. observation: Wiktionary
  9. observation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. observation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. observation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. observation: Dictionary.com
  13. observation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. observation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Observation (disambiguation), Observation (video game), Observation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Observation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. observation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. observation: Rhymezone
  19. observation, observation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. observation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. observation: Free Dictionary
  22. observation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. observation: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. observation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. observation: Legal dictionary

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  1. observation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. observation: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. observation: Medical dictionary
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Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. observation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of observing, and the fact of being observed (see observance)
noun:  The act of noting and recording some event; or the record of such noting.
noun:  A remark or comment.
noun:  A judgement based on observing.
noun:  Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
noun:  A regime under which a subject is routinely observed.
noun:  Philosophically as: the phenomenal presence of human being existence.
noun:  (stochastics) A realization of a random variable.

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