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International Standard IEC 60027-2 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 25: Quantities and units, and their letter symbols.
This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition published in 2000. This third edition constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
a) it contains a revision of some clauses of the first edition that were not technically revised in the second edition;
b) it contains a revision of Clause 8 which is now Clause 10;
c) it contains some new clauses dealing with subjects that were not previously considered;
d) former Clause 10 will be given in another part of IEC 60027;
e) former Clause 11 will be revised as IEC 60027-6.
IEC 60027 consists of the following parts, under the general title Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology:
Part 1: General
Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics
Part 3: Logarithmic and related quantities, and their units
Part 4: Symbols for quantities to be used for rotating electrical machines
Part 6: Control technology
Part 7: Physiological quantities and units
The committee has decided that the contents
This part of IEC 60027 is applicable to telecommunications and electronics. It gives names and symbols for quantities and units.