National Physical Laboratory of India, the Glossary

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1. 69 relations: Akbar, Ampere, Atomic clock, Ayurveda, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Biosensor, British Raj, Caesium, Candela, Chandragupta Maurya, Cholesterol, Chromium, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Deputy Prime Minister of India, Elections in India, Executive director, Frequency, Global Positioning System, Government, Government of India, Guz, Harappa, Helium–neon laser, India, Indian National Satellite System, Indian units of measurement, Indira Gandhi, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International Bureau of Weights and Measures, International Prototype of the Kilogram, International System of Units, International Temperature Scale of 1990, Jawaharlal Nehru, K. S. Krishnan, Kelvin, Kilogram, Length, Lok Sabha, Luminous intensity, Mass, Metre, Metric system, Metrology, Mole (unit), Mughal Empire, Mumbai, Mysore Paints and Varnish, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), New Delhi, ... Expand index (19 more) »

2. Research institutes established in 1947
3. Research institutes in Delhi
4. Standards organisations in India

Akbar

Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (–), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.

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Ampere

The ampere (symbol: A), often shortened to amp,SI supports only the use of symbols and deprecates the use of abbreviations for units.

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Atomic clock

An atomic clock is a clock that measures time by monitoring the resonant frequency of atoms.

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Ayurveda

Ayurveda is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent.

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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) is India's premier nuclear research facility, headquartered in Trombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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Biosensor

A biosensor is an analytical device, used for the detection of a chemical substance, that combines a biological component with a physicochemical detector.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Caesium

Caesium (IUPAC spelling; cesium in American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Cs and atomic number 55.

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Candela

The candela (or; symbol: cd) is the unit of luminous intensity in the International System of Units (SI).

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Chandragupta Maurya

Chandragupta Maurya (350–295 BCE) was the Emperor of Magadha from 322 BC to 297 BC and founder of the Maurya dynasty which ruled over a geographically-extensive empire based in Magadha.

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Cholesterol

Cholesterol is the principal sterol of all higher animals, distributed in body tissues, especially the brain and spinal cord, and in animal fats and oils.

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Chromium

Chromium is a chemical element; it has symbol Cr and atomic number 24.

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Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR; IAST: vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada) is a research and development (R&D) organisation in India to promote scientific, industrial and economic growth. National Physical Laboratory of India and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research are organisations based in Delhi.

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Deputy Prime Minister of India

The deputy prime minister of India (IAST: Bhārat Ke Upapradhānamantrī), although not a Constitutional post, is the second-highest ranking minister of the Union in the executive branch of the Government of India and is a senior member of the Union Council of Ministers.

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Elections in India

India has a parliamentary system as defined by its constitution, with power distributed between the union government and the states.

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Executive director

Executive director is commonly the title of the chief executive officer (CEO) of a company, non-profit organization, government agency or international organization.

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Frequency

Frequency (symbol f), most often measured in hertz (symbol: Hz), is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.

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Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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Guz

A guz (also spelled gaz, from Hindustani / and Persian, or gudge, from Hindi (gaj)), or Mughal yard, is a unit of length used in parts of Asia.

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Harappa

Harappa is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about west of Sahiwal.

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Helium–neon laser

A helium–neon laser or He-Ne laser is a type of gas laser whose high energetic medium gain medium consists of a mixture of ratio (between 5:1 and 20:1) of helium and neon at a total pressure of approximately 1 Torr (133 Pa) inside a small electrical discharge.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian National Satellite System

The Indian National Satellite System or INSAT, is a series of multipurpose geostationary satellites launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to satisfy telecommunications, broadcasting, meteorology, and search and rescue operations.

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Indian units of measurement

Before the introduction of the metric system, one may divide the history of Indian systems of measurement into three main periods: the pre-Akbar period, the period of the Akbar system, and the British colonial period.

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Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (''née'' Indira Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and stateswoman who served as the prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations.

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International Bureau of Weights and Measures

The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (Bureau international des poids et mesures, BIPM) is an intergovernmental organisation, through which its 59 member-states act on measurement standards in areas including chemistry, ionising radiation, physical metrology, as well as the International System of Units (SI) and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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International Prototype of the Kilogram

The International Prototype of the Kilogram (referred to by metrologists as the IPK or Le Grand K; sometimes called the ur-kilogram, or urkilogram, particularly by German-language authors writing in English) is an object whose mass was used to define the kilogram from 1889, when it replaced the Kilogramme des Archives, until 2019, when it was replaced by a new definition of the kilogram based entirely on physical constants.

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International System of Units

The International System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI (from French Système international d'unités), is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement. National Physical Laboratory of India and international System of Units are systems of units.

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International Temperature Scale of 1990

The International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) is an equipment calibration standard specified by the International Committee of Weights and Measures (CIPM) for making measurements on the Kelvin and Celsius temperature scales.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, author and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century.

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K. S. Krishnan

Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, (4 December 1898 – 14 June 1961) was an Indian physicist.

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Kelvin

The kelvin, symbol K, is the base unit of measurement for temperature in the International System of Units (SI).

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Kilogram

The kilogram (also kilogramme) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), having the unit symbol kg.

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Length

Length is a measure of distance.

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Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha.

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Luminous intensity

In photometry, luminous intensity is a measure of the wavelength-weighted power emitted by a light source in a particular direction per unit solid angle, based on the luminosity function, a standardized model of the sensitivity of the human eye.

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Mass

Mass is an intrinsic property of a body.

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Metre

The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI).

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Metric system

The metric system is a decimal-based system of measurement. National Physical Laboratory of India and metric system are systems of units.

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Metrology

Metrology is the scientific study of measurement.

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Mole (unit)

The mole (symbol mol) is a unit of measurement, the base unit in the International System of Units (SI) for amount of substance, a quantity proportional to the number of elementary entities of a substance.

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Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Mysore Paints and Varnish

Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited, formerly Mysore Lac and Paints Limited, is a company located in the southern Indian city of Mysore, Karnataka.

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National Institute of Standards and Technology

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness.

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National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the national measurement standards laboratory of the United Kingdom.

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New Delhi

New Delhi (ISO: Naī Dillī), is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).

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Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28.

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Ohm

The ohm (symbol: Ω, the uppercase Greek letter omega) is the unit of electrical resistance in the International System of Units (SI).

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Platinum–iridium alloy

Platinum–iridium alloys are alloys of the platinum group precious metals platinum and iridium.

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Prime Minister of India

The prime minister of India (ISO) is the head of government of the Republic of India. National Physical Laboratory of India and prime Minister of India are 1947 establishments in India.

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Radiation

In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or a material medium.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves.

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Second

The second (symbol: s) is the unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), historically defined as of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds each (24 × 60 × 60.

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Speed of light

The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to). According to the special theory of relativity, is the upper limit for the speed at which conventional matter or energy (and thus any signal carrying information) can travel through space.

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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Telephone

A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.

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Temperature

Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.

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Time

Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future.

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Uncertainty

Uncertainty or incertitude refers to epistemic situations involving imperfect or unknown information.

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Uric acid

Uric acid is a heterocyclic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen with the formula C5H4N4O3.

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Vallabhbhai Patel

Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel (ISO: Vallabhbhāī Jhāvērabhāī Paṭēla; 31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950), commonly known as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, was an Indian independence activist and barrister who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India from 1947 to 1950.

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VAMAS

VAMAS stands for Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards.

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Volt

The volt (symbol: V) is the unit of electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force in the International System of Units (SI).

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See also

Research institutes established in 1947

• African Studies Centre Leiden
• All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics
• British Hydromechanics Research Association
• Central Building Research Institute
• Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute
• Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
• Central Tobacco Research Institute
• Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany
• Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
• Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Jewish Historical Institute
• Kinsey Institute
• Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
• Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine
• Milko Kos Historical Institute
• National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Japan)
• National Physical Laboratory of India
• Physical Research Laboratory
• Southwest Research Institute
• The Rodale Institute
• Yad Ben Zvi

Research institutes in Delhi

• All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
• All India Institutes of Medical Sciences
• Center for Biochemical Technology
• Central Road Research Institute
• Centre for Fire, Explosive and Environment Safety
• Centre for Land Warfare Studies
• Centre for Research on Energy Security
• Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
• Council On Energy, Environment and Water
• Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences
• Defence Institute of Psychological Research
• Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre
• Defence Terrain Research Laboratory
• Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research
• ERNET
• Global Research Alliance
• Indian Agricultural Research Institute
• Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute
• Indian Council of Medical Research
• Indian Council of World Affairs
• Indian Police Foundation and Institute
• Indian Society of International Law
• Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
• Institute for Studies in Industrial Development
• Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
• Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences
• Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences
• Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi
• Laser Science and Technology Centre
• Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
• Mathematical Sciences Foundation
• National Centre for Disease Control
• National Council of Applied Economic Research
• National Council of Educational Research and Training
• National Institute of Immunology, India
• National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development
• National Institute of Malaria Research
• National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
• National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources
• National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies
• National Institute of Urban Affairs
• National Physical Laboratory of India
• Observer Research Foundation
• Regional Centre for Biotechnology
• Scientific Analysis Group
• Social Development and Research Foundation
• Solid State Physics Laboratory
• The Energy and Resources Institute
• Time and Frequency Standards Laboratory

Standards organisations in India

• Bureau of Indian Standards
• National Financial Reporting Authority
• National Physical Laboratory of India
• TSDSI

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Physical_Laboratory_of_India

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