"observation post" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "observation posts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "observation post (plural observation posts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Mars Ruins Codex entry",
          "text": "The south polar region of Promethei Planum developed a Bermuda Triangle reputation. Satellites detected intermittent mass concentrations and magnetic field shifts. In 2148, prospectors working near Deseado Crater discovered an underground complex: a Prothean observation post. The odd phenomena were generated by the operation and discharge of a mass effect core, struggling to function despite fifty millennia of neglect.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a lookout or vantage point"
      ],
      "id": "en-observation_post-en-noun-ODa4WGiC",
      "links": [
        [
          "lookout",
          "lookout"
        ],
        [
          "vantage point",
          "vantage point"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "ditanocʻ",
          "sense": "lookout",
          "word": "դիտանոց"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "lookout",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pozorovatelna"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "lookout",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "rozhledna"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lookout",
          "word": "tarkkailupiste"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lookout",
          "word": "näköalapaikka"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "lookout",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Beobachtungsstand"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "lookout",
          "word": "matairangi"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "lookout",
          "word": "tūtainga"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nabljudatelʹnyj punkt",
          "sense": "lookout",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "наблюдательный пункт"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "lookout",
          "word": "gözlem noktası"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "observation post"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "observation posts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "observation post (plural observation posts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Mars Ruins Codex entry",
          "text": "The south polar region of Promethei Planum developed a Bermuda Triangle reputation. Satellites detected intermittent mass concentrations and magnetic field shifts. In 2148, prospectors working near Deseado Crater discovered an underground complex: a Prothean observation post. The odd phenomena were generated by the operation and discharge of a mass effect core, struggling to function despite fifty millennia of neglect.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a lookout or vantage point"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lookout",
          "lookout"
        ],
        [
          "vantage point",
          "vantage point"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "ditanocʻ",
      "sense": "lookout",
      "word": "դիտանոց"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lookout",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pozorovatelna"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lookout",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rozhledna"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lookout",
      "word": "tarkkailupiste"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lookout",
      "word": "näköalapaikka"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lookout",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Beobachtungsstand"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "lookout",
      "word": "matairangi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "lookout",
      "word": "tūtainga"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nabljudatelʹnyj punkt",
      "sense": "lookout",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "наблюдательный пункт"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "lookout",
      "word": "gözlem noktası"
    }
  ],
  "word": "observation post"
}