test apparatus method utilizing mechanical transducer

Term ID

MMO:0000454

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Definition

A method utilizing a piece of physical instrumentation, machinery or equipment designed and used to measure the movements and/or behaviors of an organism, that makes use of a mechanical transducer to convert a physical/mechanical force or displacement signal to another, recordable, signal type. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transducer

References

Ontology

Measurement Methods Ontology