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HYSTERESIS ERROR [2 records]

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Record 1 2015-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Air Transport
DEF

The difference between the indications of a measuring instrument when the same value of the quantity measured is reached by increasing or decreasing that quantity.

CONT

In certain cases the hysteresis error is determined by the difference between the values of the quantity measured which correspond to the same indication when reached respectively by increasing and by decreasing the quantity.

OBS

hysteris error: term officially approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
  • Appareils de mesure
  • Transport aérien
DEF

Différence des indications d'un instrument de mesurage lorsqu'on atteint la même valeur de la grandeur mesurée soit en croissant, soit en décroissant.

CONT

Dans certains cas, on détermine l'erreur de réversibilité par la différence des valeurs de la grandeur mesurée correspondant chacune à une même indication obtenue soit en croissant, soit en décroissant.

OBS

erreur de réversibilité : recommandation internationale de la Troisième Conférence Internationale de Métrologie Légale, 1968.

OBS

erreur d'hystérésie : terme uniformisé par l'Organisation de l'aviation civile internationale (OACI).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Metrología y unidades de medida
  • Instrumentos de medida
  • Transporte aéreo
OBS

de un altímetro.

OBS

error de histéresis: término aceptado oficialmente por la Organización de Aviación Civil Internacional (OACI).

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Record 2 1998-10-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
CONT

The hysteresis band of pressure gauges (when their construction permits it to be defined), both for new or re-adjusted instruments and for instruments in service, must not exceed the absolute value of the maximum permissible error.

OBS

In the English translation of the Vocabulary of Legal Metrology presented in BSI publication PD6461, the translation of paragraph 9.7.1 (French term 'Erreur de réversibilité') was rendered as 'Hysteresis error'. It has subsequently been decided that this term is inappropriate and should be replaced by 'Hysteresis band'.

Key term(s)
  • hysteresis error

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
CONT

L'erreur de reversibilité des manomètres (quand la construction permet de la définir), aussi bien pour les instruments neufs ou rajustés que pour les instruments en service, ne doit pas dépasser la valeur absolue de l'erreur maximale tolérée.

Spanish

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