关于“检定”和“校准”术语的辨析与应用研究

Terminology Differentiation and Application Research on “Verification” and “Calibration”

校准是确保量值统一的核心技术工作,它本身不具有管理属性,是检定或计量确认的组成部分。检定和校准不属于同一语义层次的术语,两者不能相提并论。一个完整的计量器具管理过程是计量确认过程,检定仅是针对法制管理计量器具的计量确认。不当检定有害于国家的测量管理。

Calibration is a core technological work of assuring unified quality value, a part of verification or metrological confirmation, and does not possess the property of management itself.“Calibration”and“verification”do not belong to the same semantics class and thus cannot be equally used. A complete process of managing measuring instrument is metrological confirmation. Verification is the kind of metrological confirmation that focuses on measuring instrument under legal management. Improper verification is possibly harmful to national measuring management.