DUI Metrology Dictionary

Traceability (in the context of measurement results)

VIM 2.41 metrological traceability: property of a measurement result whereby the result can be related to a reference through a documented unbroken chain of calibrations, each contributing to the measurement uncertainty

definition of traceability

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