OBSERVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does observed mean? 

• OBSERVED (adjective)
  The adjective OBSERVED has 1 sense:

1. discovered or determined by scientific observation

  Familiarity information: OBSERVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBSERVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Discovered or determined by scientific observation

Synonyms:

ascertained; discovered; observed

Context example:

no explanation for the observed phenomena

Similar:

determined (having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation)

 Context examples 

White Fang had observed closely the chicken-yards and the habits of the chickens.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“He having,” Mr. Quinion observed in a low voice, and half turning round, “no other prospect, Murdstone.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"How nice! But I wish she'd let us have them now. Procrastination is not agreeable," observed Amy, taking a last look at the diamonds.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Anyone might stay there or take a train without being observed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pride, observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, is a very common failing, I believe.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

After a silence of some minutes she observed—"With her constitution she should have lived to a good old age: her life was shortened by trouble."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Westgate Buildings must have been rather surprised by the appearance of a carriage drawn up near its pavement," observed Sir Walter.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Great applause, in which Professor Challenger was observed to join.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the same time, I observed, around both of them, splashes of dark blood upon the planks and began to feel sure that they had killed each other in their drunken wrath.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)