"kata factor" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1924, Journal of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, Volume 30, American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, page 455:",
          "text": "The Kata factor is changed to B.t.u. per square foot by multiplying by 0.003687.",
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          "ref": "1929, American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, The Journal of Industrial Hygiene, volume 11, page 282:",
          "text": "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[…].",
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          "ref": "2006, G. M. Dhaar, I. Robbani, Foundations of Community Medicine, page 41:",
          "text": "Each type of thermometer has a specific kata factor inscribed on its stem.",
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          "ref": "2007, David Vincent Chadderton, Building Services Engineering, page 17:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "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."
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          "english": "kata; possible misinterpretation of as a name",
          "word": "Kata factor"
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          "text": "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.",
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