SI units

An internationally agreed system of coherent metric units, increasingly used for all scientific and technical purposes. It was developed from the MKS system of units and replaces the CGS and Imperial systems of units. There are seven base units that are arbitrarily defined and dimensionally independent (see Table 1). These include the kelvin and the second. The meter has been redefined but is still a base unit. The base units can be combined by multiplication and/or division to derive other units, such as the watt or the newton (see Table 2). A set of prefixes, including kilo- and micro-, can be used to form decimal multiples or submultiples of the units (see Table 3). Any physical quantity may then be expressed in terms of a number multiplied by the appropriate SI unit for that quantity.

International System of Units (SI)

A system of units based on the following fundamental quantities: metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole.

SI units

(Système International d'Unites; International System of Units) A system of standard units of measurement finalized at the 14th General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1971. It is based on seven units of measure, including three from the MKS system (meter-kilogram-second), the ampere for electrical current, the Kelvin for temperature, the candela for luminosity and the mole for molecular weight. See MKS system, amp, Kelvin, candela and mole.

BASIC SI UNITS Quantity Unit of Measurement length (l) meter (m) mass (m) kilogram (kg) time (t) second (s) current (I) ampere (A) temperature kelvin (K) atomic weight mole (mol) luminosity candela (cd) DERIVED SI UNITS Quantity Unit of Measurement force (f) newton (N) work (W) joule (J) power (P) watt (W) pressure (P) pascal (pa) frequency (f) Hertz (Hz) electric charge (Q) coulomb (C) potential (V) volt (V) capacitance (C) Farad (F) resistance (R) ohm

SI units

the units of measurement generally accepted for all scientific and technical uses; together they make up the International System of Units. (See also metric system" >metric system.) The abbreviation SI, from the French Système International d'Unités, is used in all languages. There are seven base SI units, defined by specified physical measurements, and two supplementary units. Units are derived for any other physical quantities by multiplication and division of the base and supplementary units. The derived units with special names are shown in the accompanying table.

SI is a coherent system. This means that units are always combined without conversion factors. The derived unit of velocity is the meter per second (m/s); the derived unit of volume is the cubic meter (m³). If you know that pressure is force per unit area, then you know that the SI unit of pressure (the pascal) is the unit of force divided by the unit of area and is therefore equal to 1 newton per square meter.
The metric prefixes can be attached to any unit in order to make a unit of a more convenient size. The symbol for the prefix is attached to the symbol for the unit, e.g., nanometer (nm) = 10⁻⁹ m. The units of mass are specified in terms of the gram, e.g., microgram (μg) = 10⁻⁹ kg.
Only one prefix is used with a unit; the use of units such as the millimicrometer is no longer acceptable. When a unit is raised to a power, the power applies to the prefix as well, e.g., a cubic millimeter (mm³) = 10⁻⁹ m³. When a prefix is used with a ratio unit, it should be in the numerator rather than in the denominator, e.g., kilometers/second (km/s) rather than meters/millisecond (m/ms). Only prefixes denoting powers of 10³ are normally used. Hecto-, deka-, deci-, and centi- are usually attached only to the metric system units gram, meter, and liter.
Owing to the force of tradition, one noncoherent unit, the liter, equal to 10⁻³ m³, or 1 dm³, is generally accepted for use with SI. The internationally accepted abbreviation for liter is the letter l; however, this can be confused with the numeral 1, especially in typescript. For this reason, the capital letter L is also used as a symbol for liter. The lower case letter is generally used with prefixes, e.g., dl, ml, fl. The symbols for all other SI units begin with a capital letter if the unit is named after a person and with a lower case letter otherwise. The name of a unit is never capitalized.

base u·nits

the fundamental units of length, mass, time, electric current, thermodynamic temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity in the International System of Units (SI); the names and symbols of the units for these quantities are meter (m), kilogram (kg), second (s), ampere (A), kelvin (K), mole (mol), and candela (cd).
See also: International System of Units.

In·ter·na·tion·al Sys·tem of U·nits

(SI) (in'tĕr-nash'ŭn-ăl sis'tĕm yū'nits) A system of measurements, based on the metric system, adopted at the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures of the International Organization for Standardization (1960) to cover both the coherent units (basic, supplementary, and derived units) and the decimal multiples and submultiples of these units formed by use of prefixes proposed for general international scientific and technologic use. SI proposes seven basic units: meter (m), kilogram (kg), second (s), ampere (A), Kelvin (K), candela (cd), and mole (mol) for the basic quantities of length, mass, time, electric current, temperature, luminous intensity, and amount of substance; supplementary units proposed include the radian (rad) for plane angle and steradian (sr) for solid angle; derived units (e.g., force, power, frequency) are stated in terms of the basic units (e.g., velocity is in meters per second, m/sec^-1). Multiples (prefixes) in descending order are: exa- (E, 10¹⁸), peta- (P, 10¹⁵), tera- (T, 10¹²), giga- (G, 10⁹), mega- (M, 10⁶), kilo- (k, 10³), hecto- (h, 10²), deca- (da, 10¹), deci- (d, 10^-1), centi- (c, 10^-2), milli- (m, 10^-3), micro- (μ, 10^-6), nano- (n, 10^-9), pico- (p, 10^-12), femto- (f, 10^-15), and atto- (a, 10^-18). The prefix zepto (z) has been proposed for 10^-21. [Fr. Système International d'Unités]

SI units

SI is abbrev. for Systeme Internationale. SI units are now almost universally used in medicine. They include the metre for length, the kilogram for weight, the mole for amount of substance in a solution, the joule for energy and the pascal for pressure. These units are qualified by decimal multipliers or divisors such as mega- (a million), kilo- (a thousand), deci- (a tenth), centi- (a hundredth), milli- (a thousandth), micro- (a millionth), nano- (a thousand millionth), pico- (a million millionth), and femto- (a thousand million millionth). SI units were initially adopted by US doctors and then abandoned.

SI units

those units of measurement forming the Système International, consisting of the metre, kilogramme, second, ampere, kelvin, candela and mole. See Appendix B.

单词	si units
释义	SI units SI units An international system of scientific units (Système International d’Unités) based on the kilogram, meter, and second. SI units SI units An internationally agreed system of coherent metric units, increasingly used for all scientific and technical purposes. It was developed from the MKS system of units and replaces the CGS and Imperial systems of units. There are seven base units that are arbitrarily defined and dimensionally independent (see Table 1). These include the kelvin and the second. The meter has been redefined but is still a base unit. The base units can be combined by multiplication and/or division to derive other units, such as the watt or the newton (see Table 2). A set of prefixes, including kilo- and micro-, can be used to form decimal multiples or submultiples of the units (see Table 3). Any physical quantity may then be expressed in terms of a number multiplied by the appropriate SI unit for that quantity. International System of Units (SI) A system of units based on the following fundamental quantities: metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole. SI units (Système International d'Unites; International System of Units) A system of standard units of measurement finalized at the 14th General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1971. It is based on seven units of measure, including three from the MKS system (meter-kilogram-second), the ampere for electrical current, the Kelvin for temperature, the candela for luminosity and the mole for molecular weight. See MKS system, amp, Kelvin, candela and mole. BASIC SI UNITS Quantity Unit of Measurement length (l) meter (m) mass (m) kilogram (kg) time (t) second (s) current (I) ampere (A) temperature kelvin (K) atomic weight mole (mol) luminosity candela (cd) DERIVED SI UNITS Quantity Unit of Measurement force (f) newton (N) work (W) joule (J) power (P) watt (W) pressure (P) pascal (pa) frequency (f) Hertz (Hz) electric charge (Q) coulomb (C) potential (V) volt (V) capacitance (C) Farad (F) resistance (R) ohm SI units SI units the units of measurement generally accepted for all scientific and technical uses; together they make up the International System of Units. (See also metric system" >metric system.) The abbreviation SI, from the French Système International d'Unités, is used in all languages. There are seven base SI units, defined by specified physical measurements, and two supplementary units. Units are derived for any other physical quantities by multiplication and division of the base and supplementary units. The derived units with special names are shown in the accompanying table. SI is a coherent system. This means that units are always combined without conversion factors. The derived unit of velocity is the meter per second (m/s); the derived unit of volume is the cubic meter (m³). If you know that pressure is force per unit area, then you know that the SI unit of pressure (the pascal) is the unit of force divided by the unit of area and is therefore equal to 1 newton per square meter. The metric prefixes can be attached to any unit in order to make a unit of a more convenient size. The symbol for the prefix is attached to the symbol for the unit, e.g., nanometer (nm) = 10⁻⁹ m. The units of mass are specified in terms of the gram, e.g., microgram (μg) = 10⁻⁹ kg. Only one prefix is used with a unit; the use of units such as the millimicrometer is no longer acceptable. When a unit is raised to a power, the power applies to the prefix as well, e.g., a cubic millimeter (mm³) = 10⁻⁹ m³. When a prefix is used with a ratio unit, it should be in the numerator rather than in the denominator, e.g., kilometers/second (km/s) rather than meters/millisecond (m/ms). Only prefixes denoting powers of 10³ are normally used. Hecto-, deka-, deci-, and centi- are usually attached only to the metric system units gram, meter, and liter. Owing to the force of tradition, one noncoherent unit, the liter, equal to 10⁻³ m³, or 1 dm³, is generally accepted for use with SI. The internationally accepted abbreviation for liter is the letter l; however, this can be confused with the numeral 1, especially in typescript. For this reason, the capital letter L is also used as a symbol for liter. The lower case letter is generally used with prefixes, e.g., dl, ml, fl. The symbols for all other SI units begin with a capital letter if the unit is named after a person and with a lower case letter otherwise. The name of a unit is never capitalized. base u·nits the fundamental units of length, mass, time, electric current, thermodynamic temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity in the International System of Units (SI); the names and symbols of the units for these quantities are meter (m), kilogram (kg), second (s), ampere (A), kelvin (K), mole (mol), and candela (cd). See also: International System of Units. In·ter·na·tion·al Sys·tem of U·nits (SI) (in'tĕr-nash'ŭn-ăl sis'tĕm yū'nits) A system of measurements, based on the metric system, adopted at the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures of the International Organization for Standardization (1960) to cover both the coherent units (basic, supplementary, and derived units) and the decimal multiples and submultiples of these units formed by use of prefixes proposed for general international scientific and technologic use. SI proposes seven basic units: meter (m), kilogram (kg), second (s), ampere (A), Kelvin (K), candela (cd), and mole (mol) for the basic quantities of length, mass, time, electric current, temperature, luminous intensity, and amount of substance; supplementary units proposed include the radian (rad) for plane angle and steradian (sr) for solid angle; derived units (e.g., force, power, frequency) are stated in terms of the basic units (e.g., velocity is in meters per second, m/sec^-1). Multiples (prefixes) in descending order are: exa- (E, 10¹⁸), peta- (P, 10¹⁵), tera- (T, 10¹²), giga- (G, 10⁹), mega- (M, 10⁶), kilo- (k, 10³), hecto- (h, 10²), deca- (da, 10¹), deci- (d, 10^-1), centi- (c, 10^-2), milli- (m, 10^-3), micro- (μ, 10^-6), nano- (n, 10^-9), pico- (p, 10^-12), femto- (f, 10^-15), and atto- (a, 10^-18). The prefix zepto (z) has been proposed for 10^-21. [Fr. Système International d'Unités] SI units SI is abbrev. for Systeme Internationale. SI units are now almost universally used in medicine. They include the metre for length, the kilogram for weight, the mole for amount of substance in a solution, the joule for energy and the pascal for pressure. These units are qualified by decimal multipliers or divisors such as mega- (a million), kilo- (a thousand), deci- (a tenth), centi- (a hundredth), milli- (a thousandth), micro- (a millionth), nano- (a thousand millionth), pico- (a million millionth), and femto- (a thousand million millionth). SI units were initially adopted by US doctors and then abandoned. SI units those units of measurement forming the Système International, consisting of the metre, kilogramme, second, ampere, kelvin, candela and mole. See Appendix B. LegalSeeSIFinancialSeeSiThesaurusSeeInternational System of Units
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