SI
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "si"
Translingual
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from French SI (“Système international d'unités”).
Proper noun
[edit]SI
- Système International d'Unités or the International System of Units, commonly known as the metric system.
Etymology 2
[edit]Symbol
[edit]SI
- (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Slovenia since 1992.
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from French SI (“Système international d'unités”).
Proper noun
[edit]SI
- International System of Units
- 2018 November 13, Matthew Robinson and Lianne Kolirin, “The world has just redefined the kilogram”, in CNN[1]:
- The reason for the change to the International System of Measurement (SI) units was that over time the prototype lost atoms and therefore mass because it is “susceptible to damage and environmental factors,” according to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), which houses Kilo 18, Britain’s copy of Le Grand K.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]SI
- Initialism of Smithsonian Institution.
- Initialism of Sports Illustrated.
- 2024 March 18, Oliver Darcy and Liam Reilly, “Sports Illustrated to avert shutdown as it gets a fresh start under new publisher”, in CNN Business[2]:
- “We have said from the start that our top priorities are to keep Sports Illustrated alive, uphold the legacy of the institution and protect our union jobs. We look forward to discussing a future with Minute Media that does that,” Emma Baccellieri, staff writer for SI and vice chair for the SI Union, said in a statement.
Noun
[edit]SI (countable and uncountable, plural SIs)
- (electronics) Initialism of signal integrity.
- (technology) Initialism of systems integration.
- Initialism of self-injury.
- Initialism of suicidal ideation.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of self-insertion (of the author into fan fiction).
- (mechanical engineering) Initialism of spark ignition.
- Initialism of supporting information.
- Initialism of special intelligence.
- (finance) Initialism of systematic internaliser.
- Initialism of swarm intelligence.
- Initialism of synthetic intelligence.
- (Philippines, accounting, business) Initialism of sales invoice.
- (UK, Canada, Australia, law) Initialism of statutory instrument.
- 2016 December 15, Richard Kelly, Statutory Instruments[3], House of Commons Library Briefing Paper 6509, archived from the original on 7 January 2022, page 1:
- The scope of SIs varies greatly, from the technical (e.g. to set or vary the dates on which different provisions of an Act will come into force, to change the levels of fines or penalties for offences or to make consequential and transitional provisions) to the much wider-ranging, such as filling out the broad provisions in Acts.
- Initialism of subinspector (of police, etc).
- India's first transgender SI
- (underwater diving) Initialism of surface interval.
Alternative forms
[edit]- S.I. (statutory instrument, chiefly in citation)
Adjective
[edit]SI (not comparable)
- (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of sacroiliac.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]SI m
- initialism of Système international: SI
Alternative forms
[edit]Indonesian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]SI
- (historical, politics) initialism of Sarekat Islam
- (physics) initialism of Sistem Internasional (“International System of Units”)
- initialism of Surveyor Indonesia
Noun
[edit]SI (plural SI-SI)
- initialism of sarjana informatika
- initialism of sistem informatika
Japanese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English SI, from French SI (“Système international d'unités”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- synonym of 国際単位系 (Kokusai Tan'ikei, “International System of Units”); the SI
Polish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]SI f (indeclinable)
- initialism of sztuczna inteligencja
Portuguese
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]SI m
- initialism of Sistema Internacional: SI
Spanish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]SI m
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