08133 IUPAC Gold Book - target measurement uncertainty 10.1351/goldbook.08133 08133 current 1 Measurement uncertainty specified as an upper limit and decided on the basis of the intended use of measurement results. Setting and using target uncertainty is described in. PAC, 2021, 93, 997. 'Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)' on page 1042 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0819) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08133/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08133/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08133/plain Citation: 'target measurement uncertainty' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.08133 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-30T11:15:34+00:00