precision measurement

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precision
noun[U]
uk
/prɪˈsɪʒ.ən/us
/prəˈsɪʒ.ən/
the quality of ...
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measurement
noun
uk
/ˈmeʒ.ə.mənt/us
/ˈmeʒ.ɚ.mənt/
the act or process ...
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In economic terms, arbitrage opportunities are always present inprecisionmeasurement; it is only a question of their greater or lesser magnitude.
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He develops an analogy between the pursuit ofprecisionmeasurementof physical constants and forms of economic arbitrage.
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This paper suggests that we pursue the analogy to the very heart of the image of scientific enterprise - namely, to theprecisionmeasurementof physical constants.
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Establishment of secondary standards byprecisionmeasurementof 506 iron lines.
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Especially within the field of electricity and magnetism (but with the development ofprecisionmeasurement more generally), nearly every phenomenon became observable only with the assistance of instruments or apparatus.
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In experimental physics, he has worked on aprecisionmeasurementof vacuum polarization in muonic atoms to test quantum electrodynamics.
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He is also an expert in radio and navigational equipment, and in maintaining test andprecisionmeasurementequipment.
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In 2011, the experiment published aprecisionmeasurementof the beryllium-7 neutrino flux, as well as the first evidence for the pep solar neutrinos.
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They are used forprecisionmeasurementof star positions, to simplify telescope construction, or both.
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There he trained and worked as an engineering metrologist (metrology: the science ofprecisionmeasurement).
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Theseprecisionmeasurementtools are available as both off-the-shelf and bespoke for use in military, aerospace, civil and industrial engineering applications.
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Unlike spring-based scales, balances are used for theprecisionmeasurementof mass as their accuracy is not affected by variations in the local gravitational field.
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These data points are used for visual inspection andprecisionmeasurement.
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His research interests include geophysics, experimental relativity, fundamental constants, andprecisionmeasurementexperiments designed to look for possible invalidations of accepted physical laws at some extreme of magnitude.
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Among these are reaction wheel assemblies, aprecisionmeasurementsystem for guidance, nine additional cameras, improved gas control for module inflation, and an improved on-board sensor suite.
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High precision measurements of the joint displacement are available.
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For precision measurements the antenna must be at a standard height.
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