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Calibration

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operation that, under specified conditions, in a first step, establishes a relation between the quantity values with measurement uncertainties provided by measurement standards and corresponding indications with associated measurement uncertainties and, in a second step, uses this information to establish a relation for obtaining a measurement result from an indication

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Information Technology Laboratory Computer Security Resource Center Glossary

A comparison between a device under test and an established standard, such as UTC(NIST). When the calibration is finished, it should be possible to state the estimated time offset and/or frequency offset of the device under test with respect to the standard, as well as the measurement uncertainty.

Glossary of Terms for Quality Assurance and Good Laboratory Practices

Set of operations that establish, under specified conditions, the relationship between values indicated by a measuring instrument or measuring system, or values represented by a material measure, and the corresponding known values of a measurand.

Wordset Dictionary

the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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Calibrations
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