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  2. Surface metrology - Wikipedia

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    they can measure surfaces through transparent medium such as glass or plastic film; non-contact measurement may sometimes be the only solution when the component to measure is very soft (e.g. pollution deposit) or very hard (e.g. abrasive paper). Vertical scanning: Coherence scanning interferometry; Confocal microscopy; Focus variation

  3. Profilometer - Wikipedia

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    Non-Contact Optical Profilometer A contact profilometer at LAAS technological facility in Toulouse, France. A profilometer is a measuring instrument used to measure a surface's profile, in order to quantify its roughness. Critical dimensions as step, curvature, flatness are computed from the surface topography.

  4. List of dimensionless quantities - Wikipedia

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    Definition Field of application Basic reproduction number: number of infections caused on average by an infectious individual over entire infectious period: epidemiology: Body fat percentage: total mass of fat divided by total body mass, multiplied by 100: biology Kt/V: Kt/V

  5. Flatness (manufacturing) - Wikipedia

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    In manufacturing and mechanical engineering, flatness is an important geometric condition for workpieces and tools. Flatness is the condition of a surface or derived median plane having all elements in one plane. [1] Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing has provided geometrically defined, quantitative ways of defining flatness operationally.

  6. Autocollimator - Wikipedia

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    An autocollimator is an optical instrument for non-contact measurement of angles. They are typically used to align components and measure deflections in optical or mechanical systems. An autocollimator works by projecting an image onto a target mirror and measuring the deflection of the returned image against a scale, either visually or by ...

  7. Waviness - Wikipedia

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    Waviness is the measurement of the more widely spaced component of surface texture. It is a broader view of roughness because it is more strictly defined as "the irregularities whose spacing is greater than the roughness sampling length". It can occur from machine or work deflections, chatter, residual stress, vibrations, or heat treatment.

  8. Kelvin probe force microscope - Wikipedia

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    SKP has been used to investigate the surface potential of materials used in solar cells, with the advantage that it is a non-contact, and therefore a non-destructive technique. [28] It can be used to determine the electron affinity of different materials in turn allowing the energy level overlap of conduction bands of differing materials to be ...

  9. Morphometrics - Wikipedia

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    Onymacris unguicularis beetle with landmarks for morphometric analysis. In landmark-based geometric morphometrics, the spatial information missing from traditional morphometrics is contained in the data, because the data are coordinates of landmarks: discrete anatomical loci that are arguably homologous in all individuals in the analysis (i.e. they can be regarded as the "same" point in each ...