Section 3Sec./Art. 3

Definition of Terms. - For the purpose of this Act, the following terms and phrases shall have the following definitions:

a) Accredited Laboratory - refers to a laboratory that has been evaluated and has complied with the requirements of the International Standardization Organization (ISO) 17025 Standard "General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories," and accredited by the national accrediting body.

b) Board-Authorized Units (BAU) - are units prescribed by the International System of Units (SI) and other units of measurement authorized by the Board.

c) Calibration - set of operations establishing under specified condition, relationship between values indicated by a measuring instrument or measuring system, or values represented by material measure, and its corresponding known values of measure.

d) Measurement - set of operations having the object of determining the value of a quantity.

e) Measurement Standard - a measuring instrument or system intended to define, realize, conserve or reproduce a unit or one or more known values of a quantity in order to transmit them to the measuring instrument by comparison.

f) Metrology - the field of science concerned with weights and measures which includes all aspects of measurement in whatever level of accuracy and in any field of science and technology.

g) Metrology Controls - refer to type approval, verification, calibration and other processes and means of checking the accuracy and reliability of measurement standards and measuring equipment.

h) Regulated Areas of Application - refers to field of endeavors or areas which are critical to citizens as they affect health, safety, welfare, physical conditions, trade and commerce, legal transactions, environment and other areas as may be determined by the Board.

i) Type Approval on Measuring Equipment - the approved evaluation of conformity based on one or more specimens of a product.

j) Primary Standard - a standard which has highest metrological quality in a specified field.

k) Secondary Standard - one which value is fixed by comparison with primary standard.

l) Traceability - the property of a result of a measurement relating to appropriate standards, generally national or international through an unbroken chain of comparison.

m) Verification - a confirmation by examination of evidence that the measuring equipment fulfills specified requirements.