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Not sure if it’s used a lot in English, but in French a « valeur étalon » is a value of reference. Like you measure something precisely, define it as standard a
by thiht 3y ago
Not sure if it’s used a lot in English, but in French a « valeur étalon » is a value of reference. Like you measure something precisely, define it as standard and it becomes your étalon for future measures
I guess it’s used in this sense here
- Fluorescence 3y agoNot heard this used before so nice to learn something, thanks! Is it said in a neutral sense like yardstick or is it an ideal to aspire to like exemplar or paragon?
- thiht 3y agoIt's neutral. For example, it was used with metric system definitions: at some point the "kilogramme-étalon" was literally an object weighing 1kg (by definition, the kg was this object). You can see here a kilogramme étalon: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Standard_kilogram%2C_2.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Standard... and a mètre étalon: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Mètre-étalon_Paris.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Mètre-ét... Edit: for completeness sake, a litre and décalitre (10L) étalon: https://portail.polytechnique.edu/musx/sites/pf_191/files/accueil/litre_decalitre.jpg https://portail.polytechnique.edu/musx/sites/pf_191/files/ac...