[VIM3] 1.27 quantity-value scale

measurement scale
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ordered set of quantity values of quantities of a given kind of quantity used in ranking, according to magnitude, quantities of that kind

Notes

EXAMPLE 1 Celsius temperature scale.

EXAMPLE 2 Time scale.

EXAMPLE 3 Rockwell C hardness scale.

Annotations

ANNOTATION (informative) [1 December 2014] Here "quantity values" can be replaced with "values", and "kind of quantity" can be replaced with "kind", without ambiguity: "ordered set of values of quantities of a given kind used in ranking, according to magnitude, quantities of that kind".

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Contents

2 Measurement