systeme international

Questions about systeme international

What does systeme international mean?

systeme international means "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)".

What is another word for systeme international?

Close synonyms include Systeme International d'Unites, SI system, SI, SI unit, International System of Units. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is systeme international a common word?

systeme international is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.