champion data

English

Noun

champion data (uncountable)

1. The best result data among many experiments with uncontrolled variations.
   • 1980, The Engineers' Digest, volume 41:

     Many of the advances one reads about are based on champion data, i.e., fibres and/or data produced in the laboratory which often represents the extreme in performance capability.

   • 1983, G.J Koel, Ann. Télécommun, (1983) 38: 36. doi:10.1007/BF02996055:

     Table I gives the typical and champion data for attenuation of these fibres at different wavelengths.

   • 2000, Y. Kimura et al., “Thinning films and design of lubricated components: a state-of-the-art report from Japan”, in Thinning Films and Tribological Interfaces: Proceedings of the 26th Leeds-Lyon Symposium, page 376:

     It is well known among tribologists that the head-to-disk spacing, or the flying height of the head, in hard-disk drives for computers has been providing champion data of thin hydrodynamic films.

   • 2012, T. Hashimoto et al., “Recent Progress on Rare Earth Magnetic Regenerator Materials”, in Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, volume 37, page 861:

     This result is not our champion data and every technician can obtain it by exchanging the Pb particles for Er₃Ni powders in the 2nd stage regenerator of the common GM refrigerator.

   • 2012, David Michael Rowe, Modules, Systems, and Applications in Thermoelectrics:

     For this reason, the stably realized conductivity is 1/5–1/10 times the champion data shown in table.