An observer is one who engages in observation or in watching an experiment.
Observer may also refer to:
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Fiction
Observer (novel), a 2023 science fiction novel by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress
Observer (video game), a cyberpunk horror video game
Observer (Mystery Science Theater 3000), a fictional television character
Observers, beings in the television show Fringe
Music
"Observer", a song by Gary Numan on his album The Pleasure Principle
"The Observer", a track from The Flaming Lips' 1999 album The Soft Bulletin
The Observers, an alternative name for reggae session band Soul Syndicate
Publications
Observer, online successor to The New York Observer
The Observer, a UK Sunday newspaper & magazine
The Observer (disambiguation), multiple publications including newspapers, magazines & fiction
The APS Observer, a member magazine of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Science and technology
Observer (general relativity)
Observer (quantum physics)
Observer (special relativity)
Observer (meteorological)
Observer pattern, a design pattern used in computer programming
State observer in control theory, a system that models a real system in order to provide an estimate of its internal state
Other uses
Observer status in an organization
The Observer type in the Enneagram of Personality model
Air observer, an aircrew member whose duties are predominantly reconnaissance, commonly used in the World War I era
Donald Alaster Macdonald (1859–1932), Australian journalist who wrote under the pseudonym 'Observer'