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AWG

American Wire Gauge also known as the "Brown and Sharpe" wire gauge, is used in the United States and other countries as a standard method of denoting wire diameter, especially for nonferrous, electrically conducting wire.

Background Noise

The total noise floor from all sources of interference in a measurement system, independent of the presence of a data signal.

Bipolar

The ability of a signal conditioner to display either positive or negative readings.

Bridge Resistance

The resistance measured across the excitation terminals of a strain gauge.

CANBUS

Controller Area Network is a multicast shared serial bus standard. CAN was specifically designed to be robust in electromagnetically noisy environments and can utilize a differential balanced line like RS485.
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CMR(Common-Mode Rejection)

The ability of an instrument to eliminate the effect of AC or DC noise between signal and ground. Normally expressed in dB at dc to 60 Hz. One type of CMR is specified between SIG LO and PWR GND. In differential meters, a second type of CMR is specified between SIG LO and ANA GND (METER GND).

Compensation

is planning for side effects or other unintended issues in a design

Zero Suppression

The span of the SGA can be offset from zero (zero suppressed) such that neither limit of the span will be zero. For example, an SGA which measures a load of a 100kg span from 400kg to 500kg° is said to have 400kG zero suppression.
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Analogue / Analog Amplifiers

Performs signal processing and amplification. Generally, an amplifier is any device that uses a small amount of energy to control a larger amount of energy.

ASCII

(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings — which support many more characters — have a historical basis in ASCII.

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