It's the interconnected system of weights and measures that most of the world uses: that meter - liter - kilogram thing. So far, Americans seem to be sticking with their old-fashioned pounds and bushels and pints and miles and acres. In SI, all the units are related in some way to each other (for example, a hectare, a measure of land area, is the same as 100 meters squared) and units are related to each other by factors of ten. In contrast, American units use different factors within a reckoning and different kinds of measurement are often awkwardly related. Example: 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 5.5 yards to a rod, 4 rods to a chain, 10 chains to a furlong, 8 furlongs to a mile, whereas 1 kilometer equals 1,000 meters, 100 dekameters, 10 hectometers, 10,000 decimeters, 100,000 centimeters and a million millimeters. One cubic decimeter of water is exactly 1 kilogram (or close enough for anything but high science) while there are only more or less 8 pounds to the gallon.
SI is also known as The International System of Units Please, do not mistake SI for the former, now obsolete, designation 'metric system'
"SI", from the French "Systeme Internationale".
The SI system - International System, after its name in French.
No, pounds and inches are not part of the SI (International System of Units). The SI system uses kilograms for mass and meters for length.
No, "the international system is known by the abbreviation of its name in French and so, it is the SI system..
si units are based on the metric system system international (French) international system (English)
SI is also known as The International System of Units Please, do not mistake SI for the former, now obsolete, designation 'metric system'
International System of Units (SI)
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"SI", from the French "Systeme Internationale".
The SI system - International System, after its name in French.
SI (French abbreviation for "International System") is, in English, the metric system. So the standard measure in SI is the meter.
No, pounds and inches are not part of the SI (International System of Units). The SI system uses kilograms for mass and meters for length.
The base unit of time in the SI system is the second.
The unit of pole strength in the SI system is ampere-meter (A•m).
The largest prefix in the SI system is "yotta-" denoting 10^24.
SI means "International System [of Units]" (from the French abbreviation).