| 1.76 | indication | ||
| Quantity value provided by a measurement instrument or a measuring system. | |||
| Note 1: | An indication may be presented in visual or acoustic form or may be transferred to another device. An indication is often given by the position of a pointer on the display for analog outputs, a displayed or printed number for digital outputs, a code pattern for code outputs, or an assigned quantity value for material measures. | ||
| Note 2: | An indication and a corresponding value of the quantity being measured are not necessarily values of quantities of the same kind. | ||
| Note 3: | In many analytical instruments, the detector response is converted into an indication being linearly related to the value of the quantity to be measured. Compare linearity of a measuring system | ||
| Example: | The indication provided by a spectrometer may be linearly related to the radiant power detected, or to transmittance, absorbance or absorption coefficient of a sample, or to the concentration of a specific analyte in the sample. See Chapter 6. | ||
| Source: [VIM 4.1] with added Note 3 with Example. See also: property value assignment. | |||
| 1.76 | indication | ||
| Quantity value provided by a measurement instrument or a measuring system. | |||
| Note 1: | An indication may be presented in visual or acoustic form or may be transferred to another device. An indication is often given by the position of a pointer on the display for analog outputs, a displayed or printed number for digital outputs, a code pattern for code outputs, or an assigned quantity value for material measures. | ||
| Note 2: | An indication and a corresponding value of the quantity being measured are not necessarily values of quantities of the same kind. | ||
| Note 3: | In many analytical instruments, the detector response is converted into an indication being linearly related to the value of the quantity to be measured. Compare linearity of a measuring system | ||
| Example: | The indication provided by a spectrometer may be linearly related to the radiant power detected, or to transmittance, absorbance or absorption coefficient of a sample, or to the concentration of a specific analyte in the sample. See Chapter 6. | ||
| Source: [VIM 4.1] with added Note 3 with Example. See also: property value assignment. | |||