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Princeton's WordNet

  1. silicon, Si, atomic number 14noun

    a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors

  2. Systeme International d'Unites, Systeme International, SI system, SI, SI unit, International System of Units, International Systemnoun

    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)

    "Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites"

  3. ti, te, sinoun

    the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization

Wiktionary

  1. sinoun

    A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.

  2. Sinoun

    A diminutive of the male given name Simon.

Wikipedia

  1. Si

    The International System of Units, known by the international abbreviation SI in all languages: 125 : iii  and sometimes pleonastically as the SI system, is the modern form: 117  of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement.: 123  Established and maintained by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), it is the only system of measurement with an official status in nearly every country in the world, employed in science, technology, industry, and everyday commerce. The SI comprises a coherent system of units of measurement starting with seven base units, which are the second (symbol s, the unit of time), metre (m, length), kilogram (kg, mass), ampere (A, electric current), kelvin (K, thermodynamic temperature), mole (mol, amount of substance), and candela (cd, luminous intensity). The system can accommodate coherent units for an unlimited number of additional quantities. These are called coherent derived units, which can always be represented as products of powers of the base units. Twenty-two coherent derived units have been provided with special names and symbols.The seven base units and the 22 coherent derived units with special names and symbols may be used in combination to express other coherent derived units. Since the sizes of coherent units will be convenient for only some applications and not for others, the SI provides twenty-four prefixes which, when added to the name and symbol of a coherent unit produce twenty-four additional (non-coherent) SI units for the same quantity; these non-coherent units are always decimal (i.e. power-of-ten) multiples and sub-multiples of the coherent unit. The SI is intended to be an evolving system; units and prefixes are created and unit definitions are modified through international agreement as the technology of measurement progresses and the precision of measurements improves. Since 2019, the magnitudes of all SI units have been defined by declaring that seven defining constants have certain exact numerical values when expressed in terms of their SI units. These defining constants are the speed of light in vacuum c, the hyperfine transition frequency of caesium ΔνCs, the Planck constant h, the elementary charge e, the Boltzmann constant k, the Avogadro constant NA, and the luminous efficacy Kcd. The nature of the defining constants ranges from fundamental constants of nature such as c to the purely technical constant Kcd. Prior to 2019, h, e, k, and NA were not defined a priori but were rather very precisely measured quantities. In 2019, their values were fixed by definition to their best estimates at the time, ensuring continuity with previous definitions of the base units. The current way of defining the SI is a result of a decades-long move towards increasingly abstract and idealised formulation in which the realisations of the units are separated conceptually from the definitions. A consequence is that as science and technologies develop, new and superior realisations may be introduced without the need to redefine the unit. One problem with artefacts is that they can be lost, damaged, or changed; another is that they introduce uncertainties that cannot be reduced by advancements in science and technology. The last artefact used by the SI was the International Prototype of the Kilogram, a cylinder of platinum–iridium. The original motivation for the development of the SI was the diversity of units that had sprung up within the centimetre–gram–second (CGS) systems (specifically the inconsistency between the systems of electrostatic units and electromagnetic units) and the lack of coordination between the various disciplines that used them. The General Conference on Weights and Measures (French: Conférence générale des poids et mesures – CGPM), which was established by the Metre Convention of 1875, brought together many international organisations to establish the definitions and standards of a new system and to standardise the rules for writing and presenting measurements. The system was published in 1960 as a result of an initiative that began in 1948, so it is based on the metre–kilogram–second system of units (MKS) rather than any variant of the CGS.

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  1. Si

    Si is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic lustre and is a tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor. In general terms, Si refers to silicon, which is widely used in various industries for its electrical, chemical, and structural properties. It is commonly found in nature as silicon dioxide (silica) and is extensively used in computer chips, solar cells, glass, and various other applications. Si is an essential element in modern technology and plays a crucial role in advancing various scientific fields.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Si

    a syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century

  2. Etymology: [It.]

Wikidata

  1. si

    .si is the Internet country code top-level domain for Slovenia. It is administered by the ARNES, the Academic and Research Network of Slovenia. In 2010, the registry has hosted 80,000 domain names. In 2012, that number increased to 100,000 .si domain names when the domain zj.si was registered by Jasico d.o.o.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Si

    sē, n. the syllable used for the seventh tone of the scale, or the leading tone.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SI

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Si is ranked #22158 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Si surname appeared 1,166 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Si.

    84.9% or 990 total occurrences were Asian.
    8.9% or 104 total occurrences were White.
    3% or 35 total occurrences were Black.
    2.1% or 25 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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  2. Is

  3. i's

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SI in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SI in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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