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Chapter 2
Organization of Metrology:
Industrial, Scientific, Legal
Unit 1
A metrological organization
I Read and memorize the following words and word –
combinations:
purposefully – цiлеспрямовано, навмисно
necessity – необхідність
reliability – подільність
core – основа, суть
to comply – підпорядковуватися
to anticipate – передбачати
to intervene – вмішуватися
coherence – зв'язок
babel – суміш мов
hereditary – спадковий
trigger – спусковий гачок
vicissitude – зміна, переміна
tenfold – десятикратний
armament – озброєння
to forge – кувати.
II Read and translate the text.
The authors have purposefully devoted the first chapter to the
analysis of metrological needs. The reason for this choice is simple.
People’s needs for measurements of all kinds and the necessity to be
sure of their reliability and their universality have given rise to
metrology, the science of measurement. It is only through satisfying
the needs of industry that metrology finds its raison d’être, whether at
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