Entity

high-resolution terminology - matching measurements at high-resolution

Entity

Description

An entity of type X is something that can measured as an extensive quantity or counted as an elementary entity. The term entity with symbol X, therefore, has a general meaning, including but not limited to elementary entities U_X. The distinction can be emphasized by using the term entity-type X, to avoid confusion of an entity X with the more restricted definition of elementary entity U_X as a single countable object or event.

Abbreviation: X

Reference: BEC2020.1 doi10.26124bec2020-0001.v1

Communicated by Gnaiger Erich (2020-05-20) last update 2020-07-11
in: Anastrophe XX Entity X and elementary unit x of X-mass Carol

References

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Brown 2021 Metrologia	Brown RJC (2021) A metrological approach to quantities that are counted and the unit one. Metrologia 58:035014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1681-7575/abf7a4	2021
Cooper 2012 Synthese	Cooper G, Humphry SM (2012) The ontological distinction between units and entities. Synthese 187:393–401. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-010-9832-1	2012
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Gnaiger 2020 MitoFit x	Gnaiger E (2021) The elementary unit — canonical reviewer's comments on: Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (2019) The International System of Units (SI) 9th ed. https://doi.org/10.26124/mitofit:200004.v2	2021
BEC 2020.1 doi10.26124bec2020-0001.v1	Gnaiger E et al ― MitoEAGLE Task Group (2020) Mitochondrial physiology. Bioenerg Commun 2020.1. https://doi.org/10.26124/bec:2020-0001.v1	2020

MitoPedia concepts: Ergodynamics