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NIST Handbook 44 - Current Edition

2024 NIST Handbook 44 Cover
Credit: NIST

Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices
Current Version - 2024

as adopted by the 108th National Conference on Weights and Measures

 

Full Document PDF

  • Title Page PDF
  • Abstract, Foreword, Author Contributions | PDF
  • Committee Members, and Past Chairman | PDF
  • Table of Contents for Document  | PDF
  • 2023 Amendments/Editorial Changes | PDF
  • Introduction | PDF

Section 1

  • 1.10. General Code | PDF

Section 2

  • 2.20. Scales | PDF
  • 2.21. Belt-Conveyor Scale Systems | PDF
  • 2.22. Automatic Bulk Weighing Systems | PDF
  • 2.23. Weights | PDF
  • 2.24. Automatic Weighing Systems | PDF
  • 2.25. Weigh-In-Motion Systems – Used for Vehicle Enforcement Screening – Tentative Code | PDF

Section 3

  • 3.30. Liquid-Measuring Devices | PDF
  • 3.31. Vehicle-Tank Meters | PDF
  • 3.32. Liquefied Petroleum Gas and Anhydrous Ammonia Liquid-Measuring Devices | PDF
  • 3.33. Hydrocarbon Gas Vapor-Measuring Devices | PDF
  • 3.34. Cryogenic Liquid-Measuring Devices | PDF
  • 3.35. Milk Meters | PDF
  • 3.36. Water Meters | PDF
  • 3.37. Mass Flow Meters | PDF
  • 3.38. Carbon Dioxide Liquid-Measuring Devices | PDF
  • 3.39. Hydrogen Gas-Measuring Devices  | PDF
  • 3.40. Electric Vehicle Fueling Systems – Tentative Code | PDF

Section 4

  • 4.40. Vehicle Tanks Used as Measures | PDF
  • 4.41. Liquid Measures | PDF
  • 4.42. Farm Milk Tanks | PDF
  • 4.43. Measure-Containers | PDF
  • 4.44. Graduates | PDF
  • 4.45. Dry Measures | PDF
  • 4.46. Berry Baskets and Boxes | PDF

Section 5

  • 5.50. Fabric-Measuring Devices | PDF
  • 5.51. Wire- and Cordage-Measuring Devices | PDF
  • 5.52. Linear Measures | PDF
  • 5.53. Odometers | PDF
  • 5.54. Taximeters | PDF
  • 5.55. Timing Devices | PDF
  • 5.56 (a). Grain Moisture Meters | PDF
  • 5.56 (b). Grain Moisture Meters | PDF
  • 5.57. Near-Infrared Grain Analyzers | PDF
  • 5.58. Multiple Dimension Measuring Devices | PDF
  • 5.59. Electronic Livestock, Meat, and Poultry Evaluation Systems and/or Devices | PDF
  • 5.60. Transportation Network Measurement Systems – Tentative Code | PDF

Appendices

  • A. Fundamental Considerations | PDF
  • B. Units and Systems of Measurement | PDF
  • C. General Tables of Units of Measurement | PDF
  • D. Definitions | PDF

 

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Created November 29, 2021, Updated April 10, 2024