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

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  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

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  1. observation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. observation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. observation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. observation: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. observation: Medical dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. observation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  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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