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Basics and measurement

Science in countries

Accuracy and precision

Closeness to true value or to each other

Non-SI unit of volume

Ancient Greek concept

Measure of alcohol content

SI base unit of electric current

Unit of electric charge

Anechoic chamber

Room designed to completely absorb reflections of sound or electromagnetic waves

Unit of length; equals 0.1 nanometre

Apothecaries' system

Historical system of mass and volume units used by physicians and apothecaries

Approximate measures

Volumentric measurements

Astronomical system of units

System of measurement developed for use in astronomy

Astronomical unit

Mean distance between Earth and the Sun

System of measurement

One quintillionth of a second

System of weights (more properly, mass) based on a pound of 16 ounces

Unit of pressure equal to 100,000 Pa

Barleycorn (unit)

English unit of length

Unit for cross sectional area used in high-energy physics

Unit of volume with different values

Scientific discovery and improvement of scientific knowledge

Unit of measurement in telecommunications

SI derived unit of radioactivity

Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement

Units of measurement in Jewish religious texts

General overview of a "biblical mile" as described in Jewish law and religion

Bismuth titanate

Chemical compound

Unit of information

Unit of information

Multiple of the unit bit

Unit of information

Unit of information

Unit of information

Unit of information

Unit of information

Unit of information

Unit of information

Unit of information

Unit of information

Unit of information

Unit of information

Unit of information

Unit of information

Blinded experiment

Experiment in which information about the test is masked to reduce bias

Branches of science

Subdivisions of science defined by their scope

British thermal unit

Sugar content of an aqueous solution

Buckingham π theorem

Key theorem in dimensional analysis

Unit of volume with numerous different definitions

Unit of volume with different values

Unit of digital information, usually 8 bits

Byte (magazine)

Defunct American microcomputer magazine

Unit of energy used in nutrition

SI unit of luminous intensity

Unit of measurement

Medieval land unit from England and Scotland

Intensive analysis of an individual unit stressing developmental factors in relation to context

Scale and unit of measurement for temperature

Centimetre–gram–second system of units

Physical system of measurement that uses the centimetre, gram, and second as base units

Unit of time lasting 100 years

Specifying measures of time-mesaurement in clear reference units

Room which is used for industrial or research processes that do not tolerate dust

European unit of mass, equal to approximately 233.856 grams

Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement systems

System composed of many interacting components

Computational science

Field that uses computers and mathematical models to analyze and solve scientific problems

Conversion of units

Comparison of various scales

Cooking weights and measures

Unit of volume of wood

Cubic centimetre

Imperial and US customary (non-metric) unit of volume

SI derived unit of volume

Cubic metre per second

SI unit of volumetric flow rate

Rarely used unit of volume

Imperial / U.S. customary unit of volume

Multi-touch interface

Cooking measure of volume

Non-SI unit of radioactivity

Study of regulatory and purposive systems

Standard unit of mass for atomic-scale chemical species

A process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming and modeling data

Field of study to extract knowledge from data

Practice of making data available to others

Nonstandard measurement of distance

Period of 10 years

Logarithmic unit expressing the ratio of a physical quantity

Angle unit; π/180 radians

Spoon designed specifically for eating dessert

Dimensional analysis

Analysis of the relationships between different physical quantities

Group of twelve items

Unit of mass or volume in different systems

Unit of measure of volume used when dispensing drugs

Unit of volume for things which are not fluids

Unit of mass equal to that of Earth

Subatomic particle with negative electric charge (−1)

English brewery cask units

Traditional English volume measurement units for beer

System of units formerly used in England

English wine cask units

Traditional volume measurement units for wine

English wine cask units

Traditional volume measurement units for wine

Environmental science

The integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems.

Unit of catalytic activity; one micromole per minute; 16.66… nanokatals

Reference point from which time is measured

Span of time that defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography

Unit of energy and mechanical work

Endless time, an infinite duration

Scientific procedure performed to validate a hypothesis

Temperature scale

SI unit of electric capacitance

Unit of length in the old imperial and the U.S. customary systems

One quadrillionth of a second

Collection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting

Notes recorded by researchers in the course of field research

Unit of time used in audio/video timing cacluations

Set of units of volume

Customary unit of length

Foot per second

Foot-pound (energy)

Foot–pound–second system of units

Physical system of measurement that uses the foot, pound, and second as base units

Branch of science

Time period of two weeks

Inquiries far outside of mainstream science

Funding of science

Mechanisms of allocating financial resources to research

Unit of length equal to 660 feet or about 201 metres

Centimeter–gram–second unit of acceleration

Units of volume

Unit of magnetic induction

Variant of the centimetre–gram–second unit system

Geometrized unit system

System of units in which the gravitational constant and the velocity of light are treated as unity

Unit of information

Unit of volume with different values

Unit of measurement of an angle, equal to 1/400th of a circle

Gram per cubic centimetre

SI unit of density

Gramin Agriculture Markets

Gravitational metric system

System with base units kilopond, metre and second

SI derived unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation

Group of 144; a dozen dozen

Atomic unit of energy

Heaviside–Lorentz units

System of electromagnetic units

Metric unit of area

Height above mean sea level

Elevation of a location above a standardized sea level

SI unit of inductance

SI unit for frequency

Historical unit of land measurement

Unit of power with different values

Unit of time equal to 60 minutes

Hundred (county division)

Geographical administrative division

Unit of weight or mass, with differing values

Imperial and US customary measurement systems

English (pre 1824), Imperial (post 1824) and US Customary (post 1776) units of measure

System of units that were implemented on 1 January 1826 in the British Empire

System of units that were implemented on 1 January 1826 in the British Empire

International System of Quantities

System of quantities used in science and their interrelationships

International System of Units

Modern form of the metric system

International System of Units

Modern form of the metric system

International yard and pound

Units defined by international agreement

SI unit of reciprocal duration

Unit of spectral flux density (radio astronomy); 0.01 yoctowatt per square metre hertz

SI unit of energy

SI unit of action

Mass of planet Jupiter, used as unit of weight

SI derived unit of catalytic activity

SI unit of temperature

Multiple of the unit byte

Metric unit of mass

Kilogram per cubic metre

SI derived unit of density

Unit of force in gravitational metric system; weight of one kilogram of mass in standard Earth gravity

Unit of length equal to 1,000 metres

Kilometres per hour

Feudal unit measure of land

Facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.

Laboratory glassware

Variety of equipment, traditionally made of glass, used for scientific experiments and other work in science, especially in chemistry and biology laboratories

Laboratory safety

Risks and prevention of laboratory accidents

Unit of length, the distance that light travels in one year; ~10^13 km

English unit of length

Unit of mass used in many Commonwealth countries and the United States

SI derived unit of luminous flux

Distance from center of Earth to center of Moon

Unit of time, usually a five year period

Gene of the species Arabidopsis thaliana

Unit of mass for gold and silver

Mass fraction (chemistry)

Fraction of one substance's mass to the mass of the total mixture

Compound derived CGS unit of magnetic flux; equals 10 nanowebers

Process of assigning numbers to objects or events

Medical laboratory

Laboratory where tests are carried out on patients' or clients' or subjects' specimens to obtain information about the health status of the affected individuals to aid in diagnosis, treatment, research and prevention of disease

Multiple of the unit byte

SI unit of length

Metre per second

SI derived unit of speed and velocity

Metre per second squared

SI derived unit of acceleration

Metre–tonne–second system of units

System of physical units

Metre-based systems of measurement

Science of measurement and its application

Unit of mass, 1 millionth of a gram

Unit of Length: one millionth of a metre

One millionth of a second

Time period of 1000 years

Unit of length 1/1000 of a metre

Millimetre of mercury

Manometric unit of pressure

Angular measurement, thousandth of a radian

One thousandth of a second

Unit of time equal to 60 seconds

Minute and second of arc

Units for measuring angles

Physical system of measurement that uses the metre, kilogram, and second as base units

Amount of substance of solute divided by the mass of the solvent

Molar concentration

Measure of the concentration of a solute in a solution, or of any chemical species, in terms of amount of substance in a given volume; most commonly expressed in units of moles of solute per litre of solution

SI unit of amount of substance

The proportion of a constituent to the total amount of all constituents in a mixture, expressed in mol/mol

Medieval unit of time

Unit of cloth measurement

Logarithmic unit of information

Natural environment

All living and non-living things occurring naturally, generally on Earth

Natural science

Branch of science about the natural world

Units of measurement based on universal physical constants

Natural, physical, or material world and its phenomena

Unit of distance (1852 m)

Logarithmic unit for ratios of measurements of physical field and power quantities

Unit of force in physics

SI unit of torque

SI derived unit of impulse

Active acquisition of information from a primary source

SI derived unit of electrical resistance

Period of four years associated with the Olympic Games of the Ancient Greeks

Old English and Scottisch land measurement

Anthropic unit of length, based on the width of the human palm and then variously standardized

Software package for performing electronic structure calculations of solids and molecules using density functional theory

SI derived unit of pressure

Unit of volume with different values

Evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work

Unit of permeance

Pica (typography)

Unit of length (10^-12 meters)

One trillionth of a second

Amount that can be taken between the thumb and forefinger

Unit of volume in the imperial and US systems

Units defined only by physical constants

Point (typography)

Measurement unit used in typography

CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to 1 g/(cm·s)

Unit in some systems of measurement

Pound per square inch

Unit of pressure or stress

Unit of account in Anglo-Saxon England

Puncheon (unit)

Qualitative Research (journal)

Academic journal

Quantitative research

All procedures for the numerical representation of empirical facts

Unit of volume with different values

Rad (radiation unit)

Non-SI unit measuring absorbed dose of ionizing radiation

SI derived unit of angle

Radian per second

SI unit of angular velocity or angular frequency

Absolute temperature scale using Fahrenheit degrees

Relative density

Ratio of the density (mass per volume) of a substance to the density of a given reference material

Reproducibility

Agreement with previous measurements using the same methodology in the same context

Systematic study undertaken to increase knowledge

Revolutions per minute

Number of rotations around a fixed axis in one minute

Unit of dynamic viscosity

Roentgen (unit)

Legacy unit of measurement for the kerma of X-rays and gamma rays up to 3 MeV; equals 0.258 mC/kg

English unit of length or area

Traditional unit of mass or volume

Scholarly peer review

Subjecting an author's work or research to scrutiny

Science (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Science and technology in Brazil

Overview of science and technology in Brazil

Science and technology in China

Science and technology in Europe

Overview of science and technology in Europe

Science and technology in France

Overview of science and technology in France

Science and technology in Germany

Overview of Germany's handling with science and technology

Science and technology in India

Science and technology in Israel

National research, development and proficience

Science and technology in Italy

Overview of science and technology in Italy

Science and technology in Japan

Overview of science and technology in Japan

Science and technology in Russia

Overview of science and technology in Russia

Science and technology in South Korea

Overview of science and technology in South Korea

Science and technology in the Soviet Union

Overview of the role of science and technology in the Soviet Union

Science and technology in the United Kingdom

Overview of science and technology in the United Kingdom

Science and technology in the United States

National integration of science and technology

Scientific community

Network of interacting scientists

Scientific evidence

Evidence that either supports or counters a scientific theory

Statement based on repeated empirical observations that describes some natural phenomenon

Scientific method

Interplay between observation, experiment and theory in science

Scientific misconduct

Violation of codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in scientific research

Scientific modelling

Scientific activity that produces models

Scientific theory

Explanation of some aspect of the natural world which can be tested and verified

Person who conducts scientific research

SI unit of time

Obsolete unit of measurement

Informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds

Unit of information

SI unit of electric conductance

SI unit of equivalent dose of ionizing radiation

Solar luminosity

Unit of light in stars and galaxies

Standard unit of mass in astronomy

Unit of measurement

Unit of solid angle; (π/180)² steradians

Imperial unit and U.S. customary unit of area

Square kilometre

SI-derived unit of area

Square mile (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Ancient Greek unit of length

Standard atmosphere (unit)

Unit of pressure defined as 101325 Pa

Standard gravity

Standard gravitational acceleration on Earth

CGS unit of electric charge

SI derived unit of solid angle

Metric unit of volume defined as one cubic metre (1 m³) of stacked firewood

Unit of measure equal to 14 pounds avoirdupois

System of natural units

Interrelated entities that form a whole

System of units of measurement

Collection of units of measurement and rules relating them to each other

Kind of spoon and unit of volume

Data and measurements transferred from a remote location to receiving equipment for monitoring

SI unit of magnetic field strength

Class of units of measurement for explosive energy

Ton (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Metric unit of mass equivalent to 1,000 kilograms

Traditional unit of pressure

System of units of mass

English unit of liquid volume

Particle physics experiment at CERN

Unit of account

Unit of measurement

Definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity

United States customary units

System of units of measurement commonly used in the United States

Units of information

Capacity of information storage and communication

English unit of land

SI derived unit of voltage

Volume fraction

Dimensionless quantity

Radio station in Cadillac, Michigan

SI derived unit of magnetic flux

Week (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Winchester measure

Set of legal standards of volume instituted in the late 15th century (1495) by King Henry VII of England

Recurrent cycle of significant duration