conversion factor

A numerical factor used to multiply or divide a quantity when converting from one system of units to another.

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conversion factor - factor by which a quantity that is expressed in one set of units must be multiplied in order to convert it into another set of units

factor - any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together

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Energy Information Administration (EIA) adopted the thermal conversion factor of 6.636 million British thermal units (Btu) per barrel as estimated by the Bureau of Mines and first published in the Petroleum Statement, Annual, 1956.

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Estimation of doses is often based on conversion factors that relate dose to activity concentrations in the environment.

Absorbed dose rate conversion factors for outdoor and indoor exposure in typical Nigerian mud houses

In 2005 the North East Regional Renewable Energy Strategy gave a conversion factor of 0.43, so developers were aware then.

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Finally, be sure that at least one of the parameters you use to determine your fee schedules is based on the 2003 Medicare conversion factor for RVUs.

Relative value units. (Practice Management Clinic)

The conversion factor computations were different for the two versions.

RBRVS: old concepts, bad press

* 1963-1979: EIA adopted the thermal conversion factor calculated annually by the American Gas Association (AGA) and published in Gas Facts, an AGA annual publication.

Appendix A British Thermal Unit Conversion Factors

Although yearly conversion factors are purportedly designed to provide updates to the fee schedule, physicians should not expect to reap a windfall.

'90s may be decade for physician payment reform

To determine how much a roll or machine is out of level, take the level's reading and multiply it by the conversion factor (number of running feet of machine width).

Maintaining level and alignment on your corrugator

For "BiomassBased Diesel Fuel" and "Other Renewable Fuels," EIA assumed the thermal conversion factor to be 5.359 million Btu per barrel or equal to the thermal conversion factor for Biodiesel.

Appendix A: British Thermal Unit Conversion Factors

Assumed by EIA to be 4.620 million Btu per barrel or equal to the thermal conversion factor for Natural Gasoline.

Appendix A: British thermal unit conversion factors

EIA adopted the thermal conversion factor of 5.048 million Btu per barrel as adopted by the Bureau of Mines from the Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation publication Competition and Growth in American Energy Markets 1947-1985, a 1968 release of historical and projected statistics.

Appendix A: British thermal unit conversion factors