as in imperceptible
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Recent Examples of unobservable
Ars Video The vast bulk of the Universe will remain forever unobservable to traditional telescopes.
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ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025
With enough data on the correlations between skulls and faces, Nilsson notes, a neural network could pick up patterns that are unobservable to even the keenest human eye, vastly improving predictions of facial structure.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
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
ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025
With enough data on the correlations between skulls and faces, Nilsson notes, a neural network could pick up patterns that are unobservable to even the keenest human eye, vastly improving predictions of facial structure.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unobservable
Adjective
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The emotional cost of mentally undoing and redoing past events might be imperceptible in the moment, but compounds considerably in the long run.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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There was very little, almost imperceptible cross-control.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The play is now set in a purposely indistinct time period.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2025
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Often, the ad is for an indistinct mobile game featuring a woman with a freezing baby who must choose between spending her fifty gold coins on either building a working fireplace or repairing a broken window that’s letting in an icy breeze.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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At the time, unnoticeable hair loss felt like the least of my worries.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Apr. 2025
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Except that could be slim enough to be unnoticeable in the hand, but thick enough to handle a bigger cell inside.—
David Phelan,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Tim Lammers Also, every season of The White Lotus kicks off with the death of one of the guests or staffers of the resort, but the identity of the victim is indiscernible to the viewing audience.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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The video features multiple shots of the mother-son duo, during which Spears speaks in an indiscernible accent.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
26 Dec. 2024
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“Unobservable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unobservable. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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