11. Glossary
11.1 Terms
Term. ac
See
Vac
(p. 532).
Term. accuracy
A measure of the correctness of a measurement. See also the appendix
Accuracy, Precision, and Resolution
(p. 533).
Term. A-to-D
Analog-to-digital conversion. The process that translates analog voltage
levels to digital values.
Term. amperes (A)
Base unit for electric current. Used to quantify the capacity of a power source
or the requirements of a power-consuming device.
Term. analog
Data presented as continuously variable electrical signals.
Term. argument
Parameter
(p. 523):
part of a procedure (or command) definition.
Argument
(p. 507):
part of a procedure call (or command execution). An
argument is placed in a parameter. For example, in the CRBasic command
Battery(
dest
)
,
dest
is a parameter that defines what argument is to be put in
its place in a CRBasic program. If a variable named
BattV
is to hold the
result of the battery measurement made by
Battery()
,
BattV
is the argument
placed in
dest
. In the statement
Battery(BattV)
BattV
is the argument.
Term. ASCII / ANSI
Reading List:
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Term. ASCII / ANSI
(p. 507)
•
ASCII / ANSI table
(p. 637)
Abbreviation for American Standard Code for Information Interchange /
American National Standards Institute. An encoding scheme in which
numbers from 0-127 (ASCII) or 0-255 (ANSI) are used to represent pre-
defined alphanumeric characters. Each number is usually stored and
transmitted as 8 binary digits (8 bits), resulting in 1 byte of storage per
character of text.
507
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