INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does International System of Units mean? 

• INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS (noun)
  The noun INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

International System; International System of Units; SI; SI system; SI unit; Systeme International; Systeme International d'Unites

Context example:

Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites

Hypernyms ("International System of Units" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

A basic unit of thermodynamic temperature, one of the seven base units of the International System of Units (Systeme International d'Unites, SI).

(Kelvin, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measurement based on the International System of Units.

(International Unit, NCI Dictionary)

A unit of amount of substance, one of the seven base units of the International System of Units (Systeme International d'Unites, SI).

(Mole, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of linear measure in the metric system, one of the seven base units of the International System of Units (Systeme International d'Unites, SI).

(Meter, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of luminous intensity, one of the seven base units of the International System of Units (Systeme International d'Unites, SI).

(Candela, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of electric current, one of the seven base units of the International System of Units (Systeme International d'Unites, SI).

(Ampere, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived units of the International System of Units (Systeme International d'Unites, SI) are those formed by combining base SI units according to the algebraic relations linking the corresponding quantities.

(Derived Unit of International System of Units, NCI Thesaurus)

The metric system evolved into the International System of Units (Systeme International d'Unites, SI).

(Metric System, NCI Thesaurus)

The base units are a choice of seven well-defined units within the International System of Units (Systeme International d'Unites, SI), which by convention are regarded as dimensionally independent and therefore defined in an absolute way without referring to any other units: the meter, the kilogram, the second, the ampere, the kelvin, the mole, and the candela.

(Base Unit of International System of Units, NCI Thesaurus)

International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM, for Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) is the agency which was given authority by diplomatic treaty the Convention of the Metre to maintain the International System of Units and to act in matters of world metrology, particularly concerning the demand for measurement standards of ever increasing accuracy, range and diversity, and the need to demonstrate equivalence between national measurement standards.

(International Bureau of Weights and Measures, NCI Thesaurus)