UNOBSERVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unobserved mean? 

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

1. not seen or observed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNOBSERVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not seen or observed

Synonyms:

unobserved; unseen

Context example:

unseen forces at work

Similar:

unnoticed (not noticed)

 Context examples 

If so, time was precious; for, now that he had achieved a certain amount of distribution, he could, by choosing his own time, complete the task unobserved.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Elinor turned involuntarily to Marianne, to see whether it could be unobserved by her.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In the meanwhile, some slight sign passed between Mr. Micawber and Traddles; and Traddles, unobserved except by me, went out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But as birds flew in the air, squirrels could climb trees, and the cub could only try to crawl unobserved upon the squirrel when it was on the ground.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I understand you to say that your room is on the second floor, that there is no entrance from without, and that from within no one could go up unobserved.

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

He had cut through a bulkhead unobserved and had removed one of the sacks of coin, worth perhaps three or four hundred guineas, to help him on his further wanderings.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The police have watched this Lascar, said Inspector Bradstreet, and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to post a letter unobserved.

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

I slipped out of the room, unobserved by any eye—for the company were gathered in one mass about the trembling trio just returned—and I closed the door quietly behind me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Algorithm used in statistics for finding maximum likelihood estimates of parameters in probabilistic models, where the model depends on unobserved latent (inferred) variables.

(Expectation Maximization Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)

On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual; and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)