释义 |
observaˈbility [f. observable a. + -ity.] The quality of being observable; observable character or state; capacity for being seen.
1934Philos. Rev. XLIII. 137 The simplest case of verifiability—observability at will. 1944Mind LIII. 220 The new positivist principle..does not say anything at all about the observability or non-observability of the facts asserted or denied in P. 1956E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics iv. 154 A numerical limit to the observability of microscopic events. 1968R. A. Lyttleton Mysteries Solar Syst. iv. 120 It may happen that two periods of observability occur as different parts of its path on opposite sides of perihelion bring the comet into the night sky. 1974Nature 8 Feb. 352/2 It has been argued that the observability of the scattered waves is closely related to the presence of a caustic. 1974M. Hesse Struct. Sci. Inference i. 9 Most accounts of the observation language were dependent on circular definitions of observability and its cognates. |