单词 | système international |
释义 | Système Internationaln. 1. Engineering. = International System n. 2. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1899 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 136 409 The name Système International, with the initial letters S.I., has been given. 1943 Board Trade Jrnl. 149 108/1 The purpose of this Specification is to provide manufacturers and others who have to use Metric or Systeme Internationale (S.I.) screw threads with information. 2005 M. McCarthy Ships' Fastenings vii. 97 This standard was divided into two, the ‘ISO Inch’..and the ‘ISO Metric’ system that replaced the Systeme Internationale thread. 2. Science. In full Système International d'Unités. = International System n. 1b. Cf. international adj. 6, SI n. at S n.1 Initialisms 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > [noun] > specific concepts or principles of > specific system of units of quantity Système International1964 1964 Brit. Jrnl. Appl. Physics 15 1111 The litre should not be used for the expression of volume measurements of high precision; instead, units of the Système International (SI) should be used. 1971 Inside Kenya Today Mar. 30/1 The Engineering and Construction Industries can go ahead with the change-over to the Metric System, but in particular in its modernized version called the ‘Système International d'Unités’. 1972 Physics Bull. Aug. 461/3 It might be possible to change the way in which the electrical units are defined in the Système Internationale. 1997 Nature 30 Jan. 384/1 The Système International d'Unités (SI) has given us unit names that are uninformative, unintuitive, incomprehensible to outsiders. 2000 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 25 Feb. e4/1 The basic unit of length in the Systeme International is the metre. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1899 |
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