Dictionary · Instruments
Scale of a displaying measuring instrument
The part of a displaying instrument consisting of an ordered set of marks with associated quantity values.
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Reference operating condition
An operating condition prescribed for evaluating the performance of an instrument or for comparing results — the 23 °C ± 1 °C line at the top of a datasheet.
VIM (JCGM 200:2012) 4.11
Sensor
The element of a measuring system directly affected by the phenomenon, body, or substance carrying the quantity being measured — the Pt resistance element in an SPRT, the seismic mass in an accelerometer.
VIM (JCGM 200:2012) 3.8
Detector
A device or substance that indicates the presence of a phenomenon, body, or substance when a threshold of an associated quantity is exceeded — presence, not magnitude.
VIM (JCGM 200:2012) 3.9
Zero error
The datum measurement error when the specified measured value is zero.
VIM (JCGM 200:2012) 4.28
Detection limit
The measured value, obtained by a given procedure, for which the probability of falsely claiming absence of a component is β, given a probability α of falsely claiming its presence — the statistically honest "smallest amount we can claim to see".
VIM (JCGM 200:2012) 4.18
Displaying measuring instrument
An indicating instrument whose output signal is presented in visual form.
VIM (JCGM 200:2012) 3.4