Is There a Term to Describe Measurement and Identification at the Same Time? Authors Xavier Fuentes i Arderiu Consultor en ciències de laboratori clínic Àngels Egea Puigventós Serveis Lingüístics de la Universitat de Barcelona Keywords: measurement, quantitative property, nominal property, medical laboratory, health sciences Abstract This article explores some denominative proposals for a term that means both the action of measuring quantities (quantitative properties) and the action of identifying nominal properties (qualitative properties), activities that are carried out simultaneously in many scientific and technological laboratories and for which there is no internationally-recommended term. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2026-02-12 How to Cite Fuentes i Arderiu, X., & Egea Puigventós, Àngels. (2026). Is There a Term to Describe Measurement and Identification at the Same Time?. Terminàlia, (9), 7–11. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/Terminalia/article/view/156625 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Núm. 9: Juny 2014 Section Articles License Authors registered on the OJS platform must read the copyright assignment terms and fill in the corresponding acceptance box.The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Terminàlia, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to SCATERM (a subsidiary of Institut d'Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Terminàlia.Authors answer to SCATERM for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.SCATERM declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
