Others titles
- International Organization Of Standardization Quantities And Units
- System International Units
Keywords
- Terminal Symbols
- Unit System
- Unified Code for Units of Measure
- Units of Measures
- SI Units
- Prefixes and Units
- Vocabulary
- Units of Measurement
- Units of Measurement List
- Unit Converter
Unified Codes For SI Units
This dataset shows the table of base Units. Any of the fundamental units of length, mass, time, electric current, thermodynamic temperature, amount of substance, or luminous intensity in the International System of Units, consisting respectively of the meter, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, and candela.
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Description
The base units shown in this dataset are used to define all the unit atoms of The Unified Code for Units of Measure according to its grammar and semantics. There are five columns titled “name,” “kind of quantity,” “print,” “c/s,” and “c/i.” The name is the full (official) name of the unit. The official symbol used in print this is listed in the column “print” “C/s,” and “c/i” list the symbol in the case sensitive and the case insensitive variants respectively. Only the columns titled “c/s,” and “c/i,” are normative. Full name and print symbol are defined by other bodies and are out of scope of The Unified Code for Units of Measure. The selection of base units and the particular order are not normative. Any other basis B’ that generates an isomorphic group of units is conformant with The Unified Code for Units of Measure. If the other base B’ generates a different system of units U’ it conforms to The Unified Code for Units of Measure only if there is an homomorphism that maps U’ onto U. Base units must be metric units only. Special units cannot be base units.
As can be seen the base system used to define The Unified Code for Units of Measure is different from the system used by the Système International d’Unités (SI) The SI base unit kilogram has been replaced by gram and the mole has been replaced by the radian that is defined dimensionless in the SI. Because of the latter change, the Unified Code for Units of Measure is not isomorphic with the SI.
The replacement of the kilogram is trivial. In order to bring syntax and semantics in line we can not have a unit with prefix in the base. We need a valid unit of mass before we can combine it with the prefix “kilo-” This change does not have any effect on the semantics whatsoever. The base unit kilogram is one of the oddities of the SI: if the gram would have been chosen as a base units the CGPM (General Conference on Weights and Measures) could have saved the rather annoying exception of the prefixing rules with the kilogram. At times where we have to multiply the wavelength of excited krypton-86 atoms by 1650763.73 to yield one meter, it seems trivial to divide the prototype of the kilogram by thousand to yield a base unit gram.
The rationale for removing the mole from the base is that the mole is essentially a count of particles expressed in a unit of very high magnitude (Avogadro’s number). There is no fundamental difference between the count of particles and the count other things.
The radian has been adopted as the base unit of plane angle α to facilitate the distinction from the solid angle Ω by the relation Ω = α2 and to distinguish rotational frequency f from angular velocity ω = 2 π · rad · f.
About this Dataset
Data Info
Date Created | 2014-03-07 |
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Last Modified | 2017-03-08 |
Version | 2017-03-08 |
Update Frequency |
Annual |
Temporal Coverage |
N/A |
Spatial Coverage |
World |
Source | John Snow Labs; Regenstrief Institute, Inc; |
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Keywords | Terminal Symbols, Unit System, Unified Code for Units of Measure, Units of Measures, SI Units, Prefixes and Units, Vocabulary, Units of Measurement, Units of Measurement List, Unit Converter |
Other Titles | International Organization Of Standardization Quantities And Units, System International Units |
Data Fields
Name | Description | Type | Constraints |
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Name_Of_The_Unit | The name is the full (official) name of the unit. | string | - |
Used_In_Print | The official symbol used in print | string | - |
Case_Sensitive | Shows the Sensitivity of the Case Letter | string | - |
Case_Insensitive | Shows the Insensitiveness of the Case Letter | string | - |
Definition_Value | Definition Value | string | - |
Definition_Unit | Definition Unit | string | - |
Is_A_Metric_Unit | Combinations of a unit symbol with a prefix symbol | boolean | - |
Kind_of_Quantity | Kind of Quantity to be measures | string | - |
Value | Measurement Value | string | - |
Remarks | Shows which unit is used in which category | string | - |
Data Preview
Name Of The Unit | Used In Print | Case Sensitive | Case Insensitive | Definition Value | Definition Unit | Is A Metric Unit | Kind of Quantity | Value | Remarks |
bit | bits | bit_s | BIT_S | ld(1 1) | False | amount of information | Units used in Information Technology | ||
bit | bit | bit | BIT | 1 | 1 | True | amount of information | Units used in Information Technology | |
byte | B | By | BY | 8 | bit | True | amount of information | Units used in Information Technology | |
baud | Bd | Bd | BD | 1 | /s | True | signal transmission rate | Units used in Information Technology | |
kibi | Ki | Ki | KIB | 1024.0 | Prefixes used in Information Technology | ||||
mebi | Mi | Mi | MIB | 1048576.0 | Prefixes used in Information Technology | ||||
gibi | Gi | Gi | GIB | 1073741824.0 | Prefixes used in Information Technology | ||||
tebi | Ti | Ti | TIB | 1099510000000.0 | Prefixes used in Information Technology | ||||
meter | m | m | M | length | Unified Code for Measuring Base Units | ||||
second | s | s | S | time | Unified Code for Measuring Base Units |