Friday, March 21, 2025, 5:19 PM
Site: Quametec™ Institute of Measurement Technology
Course: Quametec™ Institute of Measurement Technology (QUAMETEC™)
Glossary: QIMT Glossary
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Maintenance of a measurement standard Set of measures necessary to preserve the metrological characteristics of a measurement standard within appropriate limits. |
Market surveillance used to enforce legal metrology |
Material measure Device intended to reproduce or supply, in a permanent manner during its use, one or more known values of a given quantity. e.g. a weight, a volume measure, a gauge block, or a reference material. |
Maximum permissible errors (of a measuring instrument) Extreme values of an error permitted by specifications, regulations, etc. for a given measuring instrument. |
Measurand Particular quantity subject to measurement. |
Measure, material Device intended to take a measurement, alone or in conjunction with supplementary devices. |
Measurement Set of operations for the purpose of determining the value of a quantity. |
Measurement procedure Set of operations, described specifically, used in the performance of particular measurements according to a given method. |
Measurement standard, etalon Material measure, measuring instrument, reference material or measuring system intended to define, realise, conserve or reproduce a unit or one or more values of a quantity to serve as a reference. |
Measurement standard, international Standard recognised by an international agreement to serve internationally as the basis for assigning values to other standards of the quantity concerned. |