Glossary
Pipettes: metrological control Pipettes calibration by the users

Erreur maximale tolérée; maximum permissible error

Extreme maximum or minimum tolerated value for the deviation of the dispensed volume from the nominal or selected volume of a volumetric piston device.

Erreur systématique; systematic error

Difference between the dispensed volume and the nominal or selected volume of the volumetric piston device.

Random error; erreur aléatoire

Dispersion of distributed volumes around the average distributed volume.

Incertitude de mesure; uncertainty of measurement

A parameter, associated with the volume distributed, that characterizes the dispersion of volumes that could reasonably be attributed to the volume distributed.

Volume nominal; nominal volume...