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DMargherio
DMargherio
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7th Grade
10/01/2018

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Term
Metric System
Definition
a system of measurement based on the number 10
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SI
Definition
international system of units
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Mass
Definition
a measure of the amount of matter and object contains
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Weight
Definition
a measure of the force of gravity acting on an object
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Volume
Definition
the amount of space an object takes up
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Meniscus
Definition
bottom of curved water in graduated cylinder
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Destiny
Definition
a measure of how much mass is contained in a given volume.
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Estimate
Definition
an approximation of a number based on reasonable assumptions
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Accuracy
Definition
refers to how close a measurement is to the true or accepted value
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Presicion
Definition
refers to how close a group of measurement are to each other
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Significant Figures
Definition
refers to the digits in a measurement
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Percent Error
Definition
determine how accurate, or close to the true value, an experimental value really is
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Mean
Definition
calculated by adding up all of the numbers and then dividing by the total number of items in the list
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Median
Definition
a set of data
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Mode
Definition
the number that appears most often in a list contains many numbers that are the same
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