QIMT Glossary
Definitions of Metrology terms & phrases.
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SADCMET Southern African Development Community (SADC) Cooperation in Measurement Traceability. | |
Scale division Part of a scale between any two successive scale marks. | |
Scale range The set of values bounded by the extreme indications on an analogue measuring instrument. | |
Scale spacing Distance between two successive adjacent scale marks measured along the same line as the scale length. | |
SCSC APEC Sub-committee on Standards and Conformance. | |
Secondary standard Standard whose value is assigned by comparison with a primary standard of the same quantity. | |
Sensor Element in a measuring instrument or a measuring chain that is directly influenced by the measurand. | |
SI system The international system of units, Le Syst | |
SI unit A unit in the SI system. | |
SIM Sistema Interamricano de Metrologia, Normalizaci | |