SI units
Americanplural noun
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In May, it was announced that the international SI units of measurement had been redefined.
From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2019
This same approach is used with SI units, but these fractions or multiples are always powers of 10.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
The redefinition of the kilogram will be part of a planned larger overhaul to make SI units fully dependent on constants of nature.
From Scientific American • Oct. 29, 2018
The Earth's angular velocity ω is, of course, exactly one revolution per day, but we must covert ω to radians per second to do the calculation in SI units.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Virtually every other country in the world now uses SI units as the standard; the metric system is also the standard system agreed upon by scientists and mathematicians.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
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