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observation

 
 
/ˌɒbzəˈveɪʃən/ noun

Translation

WATCHING [U] when someone watches someone or something carefully
inceleme, gözlem, müşahade
The doctor wants to keep him under observation for a week. to have good powers of observation (= to be good at noticing things) 1081
REMARK [C] a remark about something that you have noticed
gözlem, bulgu
He made an interesting observation.1149
(Definition of observation noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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