MINET Glossary of Measuring Man

Introduction

Introduction

Concept Index

1      Entities, Quantities and units

2      Measurement

3      Devices for Measurement

4      Properties of measuring devices

5     Measurement in Conformity Assessment

Other concepts

References

• ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library
• ISO Concept Database
• MINET Think Tank A “Measurement Concepts & Terminology“
  
• MINET Repository : Section “Measurement Concepts & Terminology“
• VIM 2008 International vocabulary of metrology – Basic and general concepts and associated terms (VIM), Joint Committee on Guides in Metrology (JCGM) JCGM 200: 2008, http://www.bipm.org/en/publications/guides/vim.html, http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/documents/jcgm/JCGM_200_2008.pdf

Concept Index

Accidence Calibration Characteristic Cognition Conformity assessment Conceptualised entity Constraint Construct Content Detection limit Detector Dialectic pair Entity Entity error Essence Form Indicant Indication Interpretation Man as a Measurement Instrument Maximum permissible error

Measurand Measurement Measurement accuracy Measurement error Measurement method Measurement precision Measurement principle Measurement procedure Measurement result Measurement trueness Measurement uncertainty Measurement unit Measuring instrument Measuring Man Measuring system Metrological traceability Metrology Nominal property Ordinal quantity Perception Physiology Physiological quantity

Platonic entity Presented entity Psychology Psychometrics Psychophysics Quality Quality characteristic Quantity Quantity value Reliability Resolution Sensor Sociology Specified requirement Substance System of quantities Validation Validity Verification