QIMT Glossary
Definitions of Metrology terms & phrases.
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MRA see Mutual Recognition Arrangement. | |
Mutual Recognition Arrangement, CIPM MRA for national measurement standards and for calibration and measurement certificates issued by NMIs. | |
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National measurement standard Standard recognised by a national decision to serve in a country as the basis for assigning values to other standards of the quantity concerned. | |
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology, the national metrological institute of the USA. | |
NMI Often-used English abbreviation for the national metrological institute of a country. | |
NMi-VSL Nederlands Meetinstituut - Van Swinden Laboratorium, the national metrological institute of the Netherlands. | |
Nominal value See value, nominal. | |
NPL National Physical Laboratory, the national metrological institute of UK. | |
NRC National Research Council, Institute for National Measurement Standards, the national metrological institute of Canada. | |
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OAS Organization of American States. | |