Dear Jonathan,
Thank you for the prompt reply.
> If having more than one canonical units is deemed too much of a
> > radical change ...
>
> Yes, it would be too radical. It is a principle of the standard name table
> that if quantities have different physical dimensions, they must be
> different
> physical quantities, and so they have different standard names, as you go
> on to suggest.
>
Understood.
> Is it the case that "spectral" is used in spectroscopy to
> mean either per unit wavelength or per unit frequency?
>
Yes, and per unit wavenumber, too.
> If so, I think your suggestion to add these explicit phrases is a good
> one.
>
Which of the two variants would be more in line with the standard name
guidelines? I think the first variant "..._per_unit_..." sounds better.
-Aleksandar
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