
Section 11. Glossary
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peripheral
Anydevicedesignedforusewith,andrequiring,theCR1000(oranother
CampbellScientificdatalogger)tooperate.
Ping
Asoftwareutilitythatattemptstocontactanotherspecificdeviceina
network.
PoissonRatio
Aratiousedinstrainmeasurementsequaltotransversestraindivided
byextensionstrain.v=‐(ε
trans
/ε
axial
).
precision
Ameasureoftherepeatabilityofameasurement.Alsoseetheappendix
Accuracy,Precision,andResolution
(p.471).
PreserveVariables
PreserveVariablesinstructionprotectsPublicvariablesfrombeing
erasedwhenaprogramisrecompiled.
printdevice
Anydevicecapableofreceivingoutputoverpin6(thePEline)ina
receive‐onlymode.Printers,"dumb"terminals,andcomputersina
terminalmodefallinthiscategory.
printperipheral
Seeprintdevice
(p.462).
processinginstructions
Theseinstructionsallowtheusertofurtherprocessinputdatavalues
andreturntheresulttoavariablewhereitcanbeaccessedforoutput
processing.Arithmeticandtranscendentalfunctionsareincludedin
theseinstructions.
programcontrolinstructions
Usedtomodifytheexecutionsequenceofinstructionscontainedin
programtables;alsousedtosetorclearflags.
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