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SI¹
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French SI (“Système international d'unités”).
proper noun
- International System of Units 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
SI²
proper noun
- Initialism of Smithsonian Institution.Smithsonian Institution
- Initialism of Sports Illustrated.Sports Illustrated “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,
noun SIs · S.I.
- Initialism of signal integrity.signal integrity
- Initialism of systems integration.systems integration
- Initialism of self-injury.self-injury
- Initialism of suicidal ideation.suicidal ideation
- Initialism of self-insertion (of the author into fan fiction).self-insertion
- Initialism of spark ignition.spark ignition
- Initialism of supporting information.supporting information
- Initialism of special intelligence.special intelligence
- Initialism of systematic internaliser.systematic internaliser
- Initialism of swarm intelligence.swarm intelligence
- Initialism of synthetic intelligence.synthetic intelligence
- Initialism of sales invoice.sales invoice
- Initialism of statutory instrument.statutory instrument 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 ou
- Initialism of subinspector (of police, etc).subinspector India's first transgender SI
- Initialism of surface interval.surface interval
adjective
- Initialism of sacroiliac.sacroiliac SI joint
si³
- /siː/
Sounds like C, cee, sea, see · Rhymes with -iː
Where it comes from
From Middle English si (“seventh degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian si in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the initials of Latin Sāncte Iohannēs (“Saint John (the Baptist)”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon; thus, also an initialism of Sāncte Iohannēs.
noun sis · ti
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.
Si⁴
- /saɪ/
Sounds like sigh, sie, sai, psi, xi, scye, Sy, Cy, Si · Rhymes with -aɪ
Where it comes from
From clipping of various words beginning with the syllable /saɪ/.
proper noun Sy
- A diminutive of the male given name Simon.
- A diminutive of the female given name Simone.
- A diminutive of the male given name Silas.
Si⁵
- /sɪ/
- /sə/
Where it comes from
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciations of Chinese 泗 (Sì), 肆 (Sì), and 姒 (Sì, “a surname, older brother's wife”).
proper noun Su · Ssu · Szu
- A river in Shandong, China.
- A county of Suzhou, Anhui, China. Dong Xuefeng, head of the Huangwei Township Central School in Sixian County, Anhui province, told a school gathering on Monday that Christmas was a disgrace to the Chinese people because of past humiliations inflicted on the nation by mostly Christian invaders.
- Various prefectures of imperial China.
- A surname from Mandarin.
Si⁶
proper noun
- Alternative form of Xi.Xi