base quantity
- Guideline or reference source
- ISO11240 IDMP Data elements and structures for the unique identification and exchange of units of measurement
- Definition
- quanitity in a conventionally chosen subset of a given system of quantities, where no subset quantity can be expressed in terms of the others (VIM) NOTE A base quantity is used to define a base unit (e.g. Length, Time, Temperature).
- Broader Term
- quantity
- Related Term
- base unit
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