Research · BIPM, Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology
International Vocabulary of Metrology: Basic and General Concepts and Associated Terms (VIM), JCGM 200:2012
metrology vocabulary
Supports the law that a quantity value is a number and a reference together, that a quantity of dimension one still has a unit, and that an ordinal quantity has an order and no arithmetic, which is what a rank is here.
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What it informs — 2
This source is what the model was built from. It does not itself commit the model to anything — a commitment does, and the ones it informs are named above.