电子信息类专业英语 作者 温丹丽unit 5 unit 5 passage one.pptVIP

电子信息类专业英语 机械工业出版社同名教材配套电子教案 温丹丽 高源　制作 在线教务辅导网： 教材其余课件及动画素材请查阅在线教务辅导网 QQ:349134187 或者直接输入下面地址： Passage One　Definition of Measurement 1. How to give a necessary and sufficient definition to measurement? 2. What a concept is the measurement established based on? 3. What condition can a definition of measurement be considered as a satisfying one? 机械工业出版社 Passage One　Definition of Measurement Words and Expressions intuition [?????? (?)?????] n. 直觉，直觉的知识 acquisition [ ???w??z???] n. 获得，获得物 measurand [?????????] n. 被测（物理）量 observation [?????????????] n. 观测 subjective [???????????] a. 主观的 dip [ ???] v. 浸，浸泡 magnetic [?????????] a. 磁的，有磁性的 guarantee [??????????] v. 保证 objectively [????????????] ad. 客观地 intensity [ ??????????] n. 强度，亮度 qualitative [ ???????????] a. 定性的，性质上的 Passage One　Definition of Measurement Text A possible operational description of the term measurement which agrees with intuition is the following: “measurement is the acquisition of information”; the aspect of gathering information is one of the most essential aspects of measurement; measurements are ducted to learn about the object of measurement; the measurand. This means that a measurement must be descriptive with regard to that state or that phenomenon in the world around us which we are measuring. There must be a relationship between this state or phenomenon and the measurement result. Although the aspect of acquiring information is elementary, it is merely a necessary and not a sufficient aspect of measurement: when one reads a textbook, one gathers information, but one does not perform a measurement. Passage One　Definition of Measurement A second aspect of measurement is that it must be selective. It may only provide information about what we wish to measure (the measurand) and not about any other of the many states or phenomena around us. This aspect too is a necessary but not s