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Standard Terminology Relating to Electrical Contacts and Their Use

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Standard Terminology Relating to Electrical Contacts and Their Use
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Scope

1.1 The terms included in this list are those that are peculiar to electric contacts or general terms that have a specific meaning when related to electric contacts. The definitions were prepared assuming that the reader has a general knowledge in a physical science but is unfamiliar with the terminology of the literature of electric contacts.

Significance and Use

2.1 The terms in this standard are used in standards and literature related to electric contacts, materials for electric contacts and test methods for evaluating electric contacts. These terms may be difficult to locate in a general purpose dictionary or the definition in such a dictionary may not cover the meaning applied in the field of electric contacts.

Keywords

definitions; electric contacts; terminology

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Document Number

ASTM-B542-13

Revision Level

2013 EDITION

Status

Superseded

Modification Type

Revision

Publication Date

March 15, 2013

Document Type

Terminology

Page Count

5 pages

Committee Number

B02.05