A measurement is four decisions, and the number is the last one. What am I measuring, with what, how, and what does the result mean?
Anyone can put probes on something and read a display. The reading is only worth anything if the first three decisions were right, and nothing on the screen tells you whether they were.
Work forwards, never backwards. Decide the quantity, pick the equipment and the setting that measures that quantity, take the reading under the approved procedure, then say what it means. Taking a reading first and deciding afterwards what it was telling you is how a confident wrong conclusion gets made -- the number arrives with no context attached and you supply the context from what you expected.
Check yourself: The display reads 12.0. What have you established?
Answer: Nothing yet. A number without units and context is not a useful conclusion.
12.0 is not a measurement. 12.0 volts AC, measured on this conductor with a meter proved before and after, is a measurement. The digits are the smallest part of it.
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