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AUXILIARY MEASURING INSTRUMENT [1 record]

Record 1 1998-08-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Measuring Instruments
DEF

An instrument used to measure influence quantities, or those quantities which characterize the metrological qualities of a measuring instrument, during its use or examination. Examples: a thermometer for measuring gas temperature or ambient temperature during the measurement of gas flow rate ...

OBS

... the term "measuring" ... may often be omitted in English if no ambiguity is thereby caused.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de mesure
DEF

Instrument qui sert à mesurer les grandeurs d'influence ou bien les grandeurs qui caractérisent les qualités métrologiques d'un instrument de mesurage pendant son emploi ou son examen. Exemples: thermomètre mesurant la température du gaz ou de l'ambiance pendant le mesurage du débit d'un gaz [...]

OBS

instrument de mesurage auxiliaire : recommandation internationale de la Troisième Conférence Internationale de Métrologie Légale, 1968.

Key term(s)
  • appareil de mesure auxiliaire
  • appareil mesureur auxiliaire

Spanish

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