Glossary
2
3
- 3D visualization
- 3D printing
- Coordinate metrology
- 3D metrology
- Three-sigma rule
- 3-2-1 method
- 3D coordinate system
6
A
- allowance
- Coefficient of thermal expansion
- Artifacts
- Automation
- Abbe comparator principle
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Alignment
- Absolute Distance Measurement (ADM)
- Accreditation according to ISO/IEC 17025
- Stakeouts
- Distance sensor
- Distance measure
- Distance measurement
B
C
D
E
F
- Form and position tolerances
- Focus-Detector Distance
- Surface shape tolerance
- color-coded condition assessment
- Feeler gauge
- Error propagation
- Form error
- Production drawing
- FMEA
G
- Straightness
- Averaged roughness depth
- Stretched length
- Accuracy
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
- Geometric error
H
I
- Interpolation
- Interferometer
- Industrie 4.0
- Industrial measurement technology
- Interferometer (IFM)
- Industrial computed tomography
- In-Line metrology
- Engineering surveying
- Inspection software
- Inline measurement
- In-Process measurements
- In-situ inspection
- Industrial metrology
K
- Edge breaking
- Curve
- Coaxiality
- Calibration
- Concentricity
- Circle
- Sphere
- coordinate measuring machine (CMM)
- Contour measurement
- Curvature
- Sphere
- Coordinate System
L
M
- Maximum material principle
- Measurement accuracy
- Macro programming
- Uncertainty of measurement
- Metrology
- Macroscopic examination
- Metrology laboratory
- Measuring arm
- Metrology
- Measurement errors
- MSA
- Measurement fixture
- Measurement protocol
- Measurement uncertainty budget
- Caliper
- The measurement of plastic parts
N
O
P
- Pore classes
- Plane parallelism
- Pferch principle
- Gauge blocks
- Pores
- parallax error
- Fit
- Parallelism
- In-Line metrology
- Photogrammetry
- Location tolerance
- Porosity
- Primary profile
- PolyWorks
- Process capability analysis
- Point cloud
- Pins
Q
R
- Roundness tolerance
- Runout tester
- Roughness measurement
- Rectangularity
- Reference points
- RPS alignment
- Concentricity
- Reverse engineering
- Rapid Prototyping
- Reproducibility
- Reconstruction
- Traceability
- Reflector
- Reference markers
S
- Slicing
- Six Sigma rule
- SPC Analysis
- Standard deviation
- Structured light projection
- Spherically Mounted Retroreflector (SMR)
- STL
T
- Triangulation
- Tool Center Point (TCP)
- Technical drawing
- Tactile metrology
- Tolerance
- Tolerance analysis
