10017 IUPAC Gold Book - examinational comparability 10.1351/goldbook.10017 10017 current 1 Comparability of examination results, for nominal properties of a given kind-of-nominal-property, that are examined and traceable to the same reference. Examination results for the colours of two different biological fluids are comparable when they are both traceable to the same colour chart. Examination results for the colours of two different biological fluids are comparable when they are both traceable to the same colour chart. examination results https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09999 kind-of-nominal-property https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09980 nominal properties https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09979 PAC, 2018, 90, 913. 'Vocabulary on nominal property, examination, and related concepts for clinical laboratory sciences (IFCC-IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 928 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2011-0613) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10017/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10017/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10017/plain Citation: 'examinational comparability' 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.10017 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. 2026-05-15T06:58:19+00:00