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Bookmark or Share- International System of Units - WikipediaThe 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 ).
- Unit of measurement - WikipediaA unit of measurement, or unit of measure, is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity. [1] Any other quantity of that kind can be expressed as a multiple of the unit of measurement.
- International System of Units | Measurement, Conversion & HistoryInternational System of Units (SI), international decimal system of weights and measures derived from and extending the metric system of units. SI has seven basic units, from which others are derived: the second, the meter, the kilogram, the ampere, the kelvin, the mole, and the candela.
- UNIT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionarya single item or a separate part of something larger: The first year of the course is divided into four units. This apartment building has 60 units (= separate apartments). A unit is also a small machine or part of a machine that has a particular purpose: the central processing unit of a computer.
- SI Units | NIST - National Institute of Standards and TechnologyThe seven SI base units, which are comprised of: Length - meter (m) Time - second (s) Amount of substance - mole (mole) Electric current - ampere (A) Temperature - kelvin (K) Luminous intensity - candela (cd) Mass - kilogram (kg)
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