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Encyclopedia: International System of Units

For other uses, see Si.

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How to say "International System of Units" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	国际单位制
	(Japanese)	国際単位系
	(German)	Internationales Einheitensystem
	(Spanish)	Sistema Internacional de Unidades
	(French)	Système international d'unités
	(Italian)	Sistema internazionale di unità di misura

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Metric

See: International System of Units, colloquially called the Metric System, and also metrication. Software metric. Metric space, treating a mathematical abstraction of the notion of distance . Metric tensor. Normed vector space. Metric and metrical refer to the topic treated in meter (music) or to...

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SI supplementary unit

SI ( International System of Units ) supplementary units were: Quantity Symbol Name of SI supplementary unit Symbol for SI unit angle θ radian rad solid angle Ω steradian sr As of October 1995, the category of "supplementary units" has been abolished from the SI system of measurement...

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Millilitre

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Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre

International System of Units uses the character "l" (lower-case L) to denote the metric unit of volume litre... upper-case L to represent litres, the International System of Units only permits the use of a capital... that was after his death in 1778 incorporated into the International System of Units...

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Si

Si or si or SI may stand for: SI , the Système International d'Unités , the (metric) International System of Units Si, the lunar deity in Mohican mythology si, one of Spanish language words... Institution Socialist International Sports Illustrated Sports Interactive Staten Island, a borough of New...

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Calibration

values in the International System of Units (SI). Such constants include the length of the metre, the... ultimate authority for values of SI units and industrial standards. NIST also defines traceability... Calibration is the determination, by measurement or comparison with a standard, of the correct...

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Triple point

triple point of water is used to define the kelvin, the unit of thermodynamic temperature in the International System of Units. The number given for the temperature of the triple point of water is an... pressure of the substance, not the total pressure of the entire system. See also equations of state...

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Bureau International des Poids et Mesures

uniformity of measurements and their traceability to the International System of Units (SI). It does... The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (International Bureau for Weights and Measures, or BIPM ) is one of the three organizations established to maintain the SI system under the terms of the...

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Exabyte

System of Units (SI) prefixes with the word "binary" (see Binary prefix). Thus meaning (2) is called... An exabyte (derived from the SI prefix exa - ) is a unit of measurement in computers of one million million million bytes. Its abbreviation is EB . Because of irregularities in definition and usage...

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Petabyte

prefixes by combining the International System of Units (SI) prefixes with the word "binary" (see Binary... A petabyte is a unit of measurement in computers of one thousand million million (short-scale quadrillion) bytes. The symbol for petabyte is PB. Because of irregularities in definition and usage of...

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