observable quantity

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observable
adjective
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/əbˈzɜː.və.bəl/us
/əbˈzɝː.və.bəl/
that can be noticed ...
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quantity
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkwɒn.tə.ti/us
/ˈkwɑːn.t̬ə.t̬i/
the amount or number of something, especially that can ...
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In general, it can be used to create a linear theory for anyobservablequantityincluding those, such as risk premia, that depend on nonquadratic properties of tastes and technology.
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We are concerned here with obtaining a result that could then be compared with actual market data, and the short-term excess demand is not an easilyobservablequantity.
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One is theoretically free to make the assignment in either way, and noobservablequantitycan depend on this choice.
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The actual number of accidents experienced by a customer is theobservablequantity.
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Relating theobservablequantityto the calculated cluster mass profile produces the mass-observable relation.
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The two theories are equivalent in the sense that all observable quantities in one description are identified with quantities in the dual description.
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Many researchers were working on the theory of observable quantities in the 1940s.
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To compute observable quantities in quantum field theory or string theory, physicists typically apply the methods of perturbation theory.
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Instead, it indicates what the probabilities of the outcomes are, with the indeterminism of observable quantities constrained by the uncertainty principle.
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Gauge theories constrain the laws of physics, because all the changes induced by a gauge transformation have to cancel each other out when written in terms of observable quantities.
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Born pointed out that "this is the law of matrix multiplication", so that the position, the momentum, the energy, all the observable quantities in the theory, are interpreted as matrices.
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