Quantity value attributed by agreement to a quantity for a given purpose.
Notes: - Sometimes a conventional quantity value is an estimate of a true quantity value.
- A conventional quantity value is generally accepted as being associated with a suitably small measurement uncertainty, which might be zero.
- In quality assurance and quality control in chemistry, a conventional quantity value, which may be a consensus property value, is often termed "assigned value".
Source:
PAC, 2021, 93, 997. 'Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)' on page 1004 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0819)