QIMT Glossary
Definitions of Metrology terms & phrases.
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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. | |
Measurement standard, maintenance Set of operations necessary to preserve the metrological characteristics of a measurement standard within appropriate limits. | |
Measurement standard, national Standard recognised by a national decision to serve in a country as the basis for assigning values to other standards of the quantity concerned. | |
Measurement Uncertainty"A parameter associated with the result of a measurement, that characterizes the dispersion of the values that could reasonably be attributed to the measurand." | |
Measuring chain Series of elements of a measuring instrument or measuring system that constitutes the path of the measurement signal from the input to the output. | |
Measuring error Result of a measurement minus a true value of the measurand. | |
Measuring error, absolute When it is necessary to distinguish “error” from “relative error” the former is sometimes called “absolute error of measurement”. | |
Measuring instrument Device intended to be used to make measurements, alone or in conjunction with supplementary devices. | |
Measuring range Set of values of measurands for which the error of a measuring instrument is intended to lie within specified limits. | |