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Descriptor English: International System of Units
Descriptor Spanish: Sistema Internacional de Unidades
Descriptor unidades del sistema internacional
Entry term(s) unidades SI
Scope note: Un sistema de unidades físicas en el que las cantidades fundamentales son longitud, tiempo, masa, corriente eléctrica, temperatura, intensidad luminosa, y cantidad de sustancia, y las unidades correspondientes son el metro, el segundo, el kilogramo, el amperio, el kelvin, la candela, y el mol. A este sistema se le ha dado carácter oficial y ha sido recomendado para su uso universal por la Conferencia Universal de Pesos y Medidas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Sistema Internacional de Unidades
Descriptor French: Système international d'unités
Entry term(s): SI Unit
SI Units
Systeme International d'Unites
Unit, SI
Units, SI
Tree number(s): E05.978.507
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007394
Scope note: A system of physical units in which the fundamental quantities are length, time, mass, electric current, temperature, luminous intensity, and amount of substance, and the corresponding units are the meter, second, kilogram, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole. The system has been given official status and recommended for universal use by the General Conference on Weights and Measures.
Annotation: in titles use diacritics: Système International d'Unites; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
HI history
IS instrumentation
ST standards
Previous Indexing: Metric System (1974-1978)
Weights and Measures (1966-1978)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 1979-90
History Note: 91(79); was see under WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 1979-90
DeCS ID: 7558
Unique ID: D007394
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1978/03/24
Revision Date: 2015/06/05
International System of Units - Preferred
Concept UI M0011530
Scope note A system of physical units in which the fundamental quantities are length, time, mass, electric current, temperature, luminous intensity, and amount of substance, and the corresponding units are the meter, second, kilogram, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole. The system has been given official status and recommended for universal use by the General Conference on Weights and Measures.
Preferred term International System of Units
Entry term(s) SI Unit
SI Units
Systeme International d'Unites
Unit, SI
Units, SI



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