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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

To be uniform to better than one part in a thousand

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" The temperature is uniform to better than one part in a thousand!" [From NASA website.]

What does to be uniform to better than one part in a thousand mean?

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Anonymous What does to be uniform to better than one part in a thousand mean? It's a measure of accuracy. " ("more uniform than") If you divided the test sample into small, equal parts, and measured the temperature of each part; They would all have the same temperature.

— Avangi

  • Anonymous What does to be uniform to better than one part in a thousand mean?
  • It's a measure of accuracy.
  • " ("more uniform than") If you divided the test sample into small, equal parts, and measured the temperature of each part; They would all have the same temperature.
  • However, on average, less than one part out of every thousand parts would have a different temperature.
  • (That's the way I would explain it.
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AnonymousWhat does to be uniform to better than one part in a thousand mean?
It's a measure of accuracy.
In this case, "better than" means "more accurate than." ("more uniform than")

If you divided the test sample into small, equal parts, and measured the temperature of each part;
They would all have the same temperature.
However, o
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Thank you, Avangi, for your detailed and useful reply.
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