null method

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null method [′nəl ‚meth·əd]

(engineering)

A method of measurement in which the measuring circuit is balanced to bring the pointer of the indicating instrument to zero, as in a Wheatstone bridge, and the settings of the balancing controls are then read. Also known as balance method; zero method.

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