kata factor
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Kata factor (possible misinterpretation of "kata" as a name)
Noun
[edit]kata factor (plural kata factors)
- A conversion factor, constant for a given kata thermometer, used to convert the measured time for a standardised drop in temperature into the environmental cooling rate.
- 1924, Journal of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, Volume 30, American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, page 455:
- The Kata factor is changed to B.t.u. per square foot by multiplying by 0.003687.
- 1929, American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, The Journal of Industrial Hygiene, volume 11, page 282:
- These workers believe that on account of these convection currents the kata factor varies with the temperature. In our opinion, the kata factor cannot vary; it is the coefficient of heat transmission — heat transmission per unit of time […] .
- 2006, G. M. Dhaar, I. Robbani, Foundations of Community Medicine, page 41:
- Each type of thermometer has a specific kata factor inscribed on its stem.
- 2007, David Vincent Chadderton, Building Services Engineering, page 17:
- A Kata factor, which is the amount of heat lost from the bulb surface during cooling (typically 475 mcal/cm2 of bulb surface as the thermometer cools through 2.8°C), is inscribed on the stem.