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Bible Dictionaries
Observation
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
(2):
(n.) Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc.
(3):
(n.) The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
(4):
(n.) The result of an act, or of acts, of observing; view; reflection; conclusion; judgment.
(5):
(n.) Hence: An expression of an opinion or judgment upon what one has observed; a remark.
(6):
(n.) The act of recognizing and noting some fact or occurrence in nature, as an aurora, a corona, or the structure of an animal.
(7):
(n.) The information so acquired.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Observation'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/o/observation.html. 1828.
