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multi‐meter
Aninexpensiveandreadilyavailabledeviceusefulintroubleshooting
data‐acquisitionsystemfaults.
multipler
aterm,oftenaparameterinaCRBasicmeasurementinstruction,to
designatetheslope,scalingfactor,orgaininalinearfunction.For
example,whenconverting°Cto°F,theequationis°F=°C*1.8+32.The
factor1.8isthemultiplier.
mV
TheSIabbreviationformilliVolts.
NAN
Notanumber.Adatawordindicatingameasurementorprocessing
error.Voltageover‐range,SDI‐12sensorerror,andundefined
mathematicalresultscanproduceNAN.
NeighborDevice
DevicesinaPakBus®networkthatcancommunicatedirectlywithan
individualdevicewithoutbeingroutedthroughanintermediatedevice.
SeePakBus
(p.463).
NIST
NationalInstituteofStandardsandTechnology
Node
PartofthedescriptionofadataloggernetworkwhenusingLoggerNet.
Eachnoderepresentsadevicethatthecommunicationsserverwilldial
throughorcommunicatewithindividually.Nodesareorganizedasa
hierarchywithallnodesaccessedbythesamedevice(parentnode)
enteredaschildnodes.Anodecanbebot
haparentandachild.
NSEC
Eight‐bytedatatypedividedupasfourbytesofsecondssince1990and
fourbytesofnanosecondsintothesecond.
Null‐modem
Adevice,usuallyamulti‐conductorcable,whichconvertsanRS‐232
portfromDCEtoDTEorfromDTEtoDCE.
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