adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
directly
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Motives are never directly observable whereas behaviour always is.
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Evaporation is not usually directly observable .
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No, each situation - recovery or relapse - can be verified by other people and has directly observable practical consequences.
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The problem which the Phillips-Lipsey model then had to confront was one of measurability: not a directly observable magnitude.
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The shortcomings of such an approach lie in the preoccupation with social phenomena which are directly observable .
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Since it is not directly observable , it must be measured indirectly.
■ NOUN
fact
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Anthropology is potentially a positivist's paradise, inviting an endless recording of observable facts and data.
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The question which hung over this whole discussion, though, was how beliefs about linguistic behaviour relate to the observable facts .
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At the manifest level of observable facts , the differences may be as significant as the similarities.
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Even such observable facts as churchgoing are hard to interpret.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the observable universe
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to others it was more properly a generic term used loosely to cover a wide assortment of observable cutaneous conditions.
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If it is to have any practical value a recording system must be concerned with measuring observable behaviour.
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It refers to observable behaviors-sensorimotor and conceptual-that reflect intellectual activity.
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Primary qualities belong not only to observable substances such as gold, but also to the minute corpuscles which make them up.
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The chips are indeed observable , but the difference between them is not.
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Then the observable quantity, the orbital decay rate. is.
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This may provide the first observable category of classroom behaviour for a workable schedule.
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Within a few weeks of birth, initial accommodations on the part of the child are usually observable .