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Discover LudwigThe term 'reference scale' is correct and usable in written English
It is used to indicate a reference point or measurement system that is being used as a comparison or benchmark. For example, "We used the Richter scale as our reference scale when measuring the severity of the earthquake."
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Many phenomena in nature do not depend on the reference scale of scientific measurements.
This record has become the reference scale for human technological evolution in southwestern Asia between 300,000 and 50,000 100,000 years ago.
By the time Ephemeris Time was superseded in 1984, it had served two important purposes: (1) the definition of a second of Ephemeris Time served as the basis for the redefinition in 1967 of the SI second on the atomic time scale, and (2) ET was the reference scale used for comparison with rotational time to determine variations in the Earth's rotational speed from about 700 bc to ad 1955.
The maximum amplitude for waveform at each station is labeled on the right for reference scale.
With Dataset II, the observer's quality reference scale was thus based on the image set of the content under study.
The FRM sampler was used as the reference scale although the parameter estimates are invariant to this choice.
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They also produced a series of reference scales to allow the comparison of data from different sources.
Implications of non-additivity of Faradaic current in the use of internal reference scales in ionic liquids are also presented.
Table 4 shows the correlation between the Strauss Carpenter scale (both of each item separately and of the total score) and 1-year values on the reference scales.
A significant correlation was found between the Social Activity item (Item 3) and the total score on the Strauss Carpenter scale and the three reference scales.
The total score on Strauss Carpenter was also significantly related to the three reference scales, showing a remarkably close relationship with the Sheehan scale (r = −0.573).
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