unobservable

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Recent Examples of unobservable These differences in neural activity suggest that autistic individuals may rely less on mental state information, which is unobservable and abstract, when processing social interactions and more on tangible, concrete details. Trystan Loustau and Liane Young, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025 That sets the ultimate limit of what’s in our observable Universe, and whatever part is unobservable, beyond that, can only be inferred, not directly measured. Big Think, 14 June 2024 The formula could be used to infer what was really happening during a collision, even during the unobservable interim moments. Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024 All are using shifts in gravitational waves – the ripples created in spacetime (yes, really) – to observe previously unobservable things and events in the universe. Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 19 May 2024 For Davies, the potential to test the effect could open up exciting new doors for both theoretical and applied physics, further validating nigh-unobservable phenomena predicted by theorists while expanding the tool kit experimentalists can use to interrogate nature. Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 20 May 2022 The team say that a noise level of just 50ppm would make the technosignature unobservable, regardless of how long the observatory studied Trappist-1e. The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2022 By the start of this era, the mysterious substance acting in opposition to gravity called dark energy will have driven everything in the universe apart so much that each individual black dwarf would be surrounded by vast darkness: The supernovae would even be unobservable to each another. Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2020 Our capacity for moral reasoning shouldn't depend on what's happening many googols of parsecs away in an unobservable part of the universe. Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unobservable
Adjective
  • Toyota’s Electronically Controlled Brake (ECB) system manages the transition between regenerative braking and hydraulic brakes so smoothly that the shift is imperceptible.
    Doug Newcomb, PCMAG, 16 Jan. 2025
  • This is because minor changes in its illumination are almost imperceptible.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In Murnau’s film, this is Ellen and Nosferatu’s only night together, and the focus is on the vampire; his hollowed eyes, long claws, and kneeling figure are illuminated, while Ellen is turned away from the camera, her body a lumpy, indistinct shape on the bed.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Unfortunately, the end product’s indistinct mechanics for its cast—Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, Killer Shark, and Deadshot all reduced to interchangeable shooter drones—and stagnant, grind-heavy missions intended to be played on repeat for incrementally better loot resulted in a flop.
    Matt Kamen, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The glasses connect right to your phone, and the sound is clear for the wearer but unnoticeable in a normal environment.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Other rooms had no windows, which became masterfully unnoticeable in Kate Figler Interiors’ Venus Drawing Room, swathed in Gracie’s Linda’s Garden mural wall covering with a valance and drapery by Perennials that evokes the feeling of a windowed space.
    Anne Lee Phillips, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Patterns of play have been largely indiscernible, and there’s little cohesion between the organs of defense, midfield and attack.
    Ben Church, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Mentions of cica, peptides, niacinamide, salicylic acid, and ceramides make many of their ingredient lists nearly indiscernible from each other.
    Devon Abelman, Allure, 2 Oct. 2024

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“Unobservable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unobservable. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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