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
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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)
<noun.quantity> Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites
the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization
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Si \Si\ [It.] (Mus.) 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.
The company said 279,821 cars are affected, including all of the 1984- and 1985-model Civics sold in the U.S. except the Civic CRX SI, which has a different kind of fuel system, a Honda spokesman said.
SI Handling is a supplier of automated materials handling systems.
ACM Government Spectrum Fund Inc., New York, began trading under with the symbol SI.
As previously reported, SI Holdings initially proposed $36 a share for Class A and $34 a share for common, but the bid was withdrawn in mid-November.