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All Concepts, Units & Instruments

The abstract building blocks of scientific description: the concepts a discipline defines its claims in terms of, and the units the atlas measures them by. This is the place to start for a term before following it into the theories and experiments that use it.

165 entries

Discipline

Invented Era

Named After

Proposed Era

Associated With

Invented

Used In

Belongs To

Operated By

Quantity Measured

Instrument Class

Unit System

Absolute Temperature Scale

Adenosine Triphosphate

Algorithm

Amount of Substance

Ampere

Analytical Balance

Anemometer

Antisepsis

Armillary Sphere

Astrolabe

Atomic Absorption Spectrometer

Atomic Force Microscope

Axiom

Barometer

Betatron

Biodiversity

Biogeography

Bubble Chamber

Calorimeter

Candela

Carnot Cycle

Cathode-ray Tube

Central Dogma of Molecular Biology

Centrifuge

Cloud Chamber

Cloud Classification

Comparative Method

Compiler

Confidence Interval

Confocal Microscope

Copper

Coronagraph

Correlation Coefficient

Crystal Structure

Cultural Relativism

Cyclotron

Data Structure

DNA Sequencer

Double-Blind

Ecological Niche

Ecological Succession

Electric Current

Electron Microscope

Entropy

Enzyme

Ethnography

Exploratory Data Analysis

Fabry-Perot Interferometer

Falsifiability

Flow Cytometer

Force

Fossil

Galvanometer

Gas Chromatograph

Geiger Counter

Gel Electrophoresis Apparatus

Geologic Time Scale

Grain Boundary

Gravimeter

Heat Engine

High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph

Historical Linguistics

Hygrometer

Hypothesis

Imaging

Infrared Spectrometer

Instrumentation

Ionization Chamber

Jet Stream

Kelvin

Kilogram

Kinship

Krebs Cycle

Large Hadron Collider

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

Length

Linear Accelerator

Lock and Key Model

Luminous Intensity

Magnetometer