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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.

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Discipline

Invented Era

Named After

Proposed Era

Associated With

Invented

Used In

Belongs To

Operated By

Quantity Measured

Instrument Class

Unit System

Paradigm

Paradigm

Participant Observation

Particle Detector

Peer Review

pH Meter

Phase Diagram

Phonology

Photometer

Physical Quantity

Polarimeter

Polymerase Chain Reaction

Population Ecology

Programming Language

Proof

Protein Structure

P-value

Radio Telescope

Radiosonde

Rain Gauge

Refractometer

Reproducibility

Rock Cycle

Rotary Evaporator

Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Scientific Instrument

Scintillation Counter

Second

Seismograph

Semantics

Sextant

Silicon

Spectrometer

Spectrometer

Spectrophotometer

Spectroscope

Spectroscopy

Standard Deviation

Statistical Significance

Stratigraphy

Structural Linguistics

Structure-Property Relationship

Synchrotron

Syntax

Telescope

The Controlled Trial

The Haber Process

The Placebo Effect

The Randomized Controlled Trial

The Reproducibility Crisis

The Scientific Method

Theorem

Theory-Ladenness

Thermal Cycler

Thermodynamic Temperature

Thermometer

Tide Gauge

Time

Titanium

Torsion Balance

Transistor

Ultracentrifuge

Vaccination

Van de Graaff Generator

Wheatstone Bridge

X-ray Diffractometer