The International System of Units (SI)
Abstract
The booklet is the U.S. edition of the English language translation of the 6th edition of Le Systeme International d'Unites (SI), the definitive reference on the SI published in 1991 by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) in the French language. The U.S. edition conforms in substance with the English language translation that follows the French language text in the BIPM publication. To make the booklet helpful to the broadest community of users in the U.S., it was necessary to follow current Federal policy, to recognize present U.S. practices as they are found in the literature of the authors domestic voluntary standards organizations such as ASTM and IEEE, and to use American spelling of certain words.
- Publication:
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Final Report National Inst. of Standards and Technology
- Pub Date:
- August 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991nist.reptQ....T
- Keywords:
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- International System Of Units;
- Measurement;
- Weight;
- English Language;
- Organizations;
- Policies;
- Procedures;
- Translating;
- Words (Language);
- Physics (General)