[Superseding IS 1885 (Part 80) : 1994 and IS 1885 (Part 81) : 1993]

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 300) which is identical with IEC 60050-300 : 2001 ‘International Electrotechnical Vocabulary - Part 300: Electrical and electronic measurements and measuring instruments - Part 311: General terms relating to measurements - Part 312: General terms relating to electrical measurements - Part 313: Types of electrical measuring instruments - Part 314: Specific terms according to the type of instrument’ issued by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Basic Electrotechnical Standards Sectional Committee and approval of the Electrotechnical Division Council.

This Standard superseding IS 1885 (Part 80) : 1994 ‘Electrotechnical vocabulary: Part 80 General terms on measurements in electricity’, identical with IEC 60050 (301) : 1983 and IS 1885 (Part 81) : 1993 ‘Electrotechnical vocabulary: Part 81 Electrical measuring instruments’, identical with IEC 60050 (302) : 1983. After the publication of this standard, IS 1885 (Part 80) : 1994 and IS 1885 (Part 81) : 1993 shall be treated as withdrawn.

The text of IEC Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker, while in Indian Standards the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.