SI unit

(Mathematics & Measurements / Units) any of the units adopted for international use under the Système International d'Unités, now employed for all scientific and most technical purposes. There are seven fundamental units: the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole; and two supplementary units: the radian and the steradian. All other units are derived by multiplication or division of these units without the use of numerical factors

SI unit

Any of the units of measure in the International System. See more at International System.

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SI unit - a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela); "Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites"

International System, International System of Units, SI system, Systeme International, Systeme International d'Unites, SI

metric system - a decimal system of weights and measures based on the meter and the kilogram and the second

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ampere
base unit
candela
cgs units
dose equivalent
fps units
Giorgi system
Gray
International Atomic Time
International System
International System of Units
Kelvin
kerma
Louis Harold Gray
metric system
mks units
SI
SI system
sievert

Although plasma levels are given in SI units, conversion rates to US units are also provided.

Clinical handbook of psychotropic drugs, 18th rev. ed by SciTech Book News

The base SI unit of temperature used in science is the Kelvin but a change of 1 K is the same as 1 degree of the popular metric unit, the degree Celsius, so both units are used in parallel.

The Travellers Temperature Predicaments (Part 1) by Wacek Kijewski / Automotive community

The new site connects with IDES Prospector, a database comprised of polymer property data in all standards with information in English and SI units.

Penton Media's (Cleveland, OH) "Machine Design" magazine has entered ... by Business Publisher