si
IPA: sˈi
Root Word: SI
noun
- International System of Units
- (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.
- A diminutive of the male given name Simon.
- A diminutive of the male given name Silas.
- A river in Shandong, China.
- A county of Suzhou, Anhui, China.
- (historical) Various prefectures of imperial China.
- Initialism of Smithsonian Institution.
- (electronics) Initialism of signal integrity.
- (technology) Initialism of systems integration.
- Initialism of self-injury. [self-harm]
- (fandom slang) Initialism of self-insertion. (of the author into fan fiction) [(narratology) A literary device in which the author writes himself or herself into the story as a character.]
- (mechanical engineering) Initialism of spark ignition.
- Initialism of supporting information.
- Initialism of special intelligence.
- (finance) Initialism of systematic internaliser.
- Initialism of swarm intelligence. [(artificial intelligence) The collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, whether natural or artificial.]
- Initialism of synthetic intelligence. [Synonym of artificial intelligence]
- (UK, Canada, Australia, law) Initialism of statutory instrument. [(UK, Irland, Canada, Australia, law) In some common law jurisdictions, a form of delegated legislation enacted under a power derived from an act of parliament.]
- Initialism of subinspector. (of police, etc) [A subordinate inspector.]
- Alternative form of Xi [A river in China, the western tributary of the Pearl.]
adjective
- (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of sacroiliac. [(anatomy) Relating to the sacrum and ilium, or to the region of the lower back where they are located.]
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Examples of "si" in Sentences
- It is the silicon analogue of methane.
- At the heart of the amplifier was a crystal of silicon.
- After deposition the silicon is etched to form the mask.
- This influences the electronic properties of the silicon.
- The solution is applied to the surface of a silicon chip.
- After deposition, the silicon is etched to form the mask.
- "_Ah! si la jeunesse savait_, -- _si la vieillesse pouvait_!"
- The metal is deposited on the silicon in the form of an oxide.
- Later, the group demonstrated the biocompatibility of porous silicon.
- An amorphous silicon capable of the formation of a semiconductor junction.
- An amorphous silicon is capable of the formation of a semiconductor junction.
- "_Si, si, si_!" he cried, nodding quickly and pointing right away into the distant valley.
- So enjoy the show, y para los nominados que se preguntan si esta será su noche, les digo, ¡si se puede!
- That 100-year period used to be known as a saeculum — the root of our secular and the French word siècle for century:
- "_Si, si, si_!" is the simultaneous answer of assent, Calderon alone seeming to give it with reluctance; though he hesitates from timidity, not mercy.
- "_Si, Senor, si, si_," answered a short, stout, black-bearded individual who formed one of the trio on the stranger's poop, "we are full of water and sinking.
- Palmerius conjectured _simul tentandi gratiâ, si paterentur; et opportunitate loci, _ which Gerlach and Kritsius adopt, except that they change the place of the _et_, and put it before _si_.
- [20] And, indeed, if the intellectual ability, etc. -- _Quod si -- animi virtus_, etc. "Quod si" can not here be rendered _but if; _ it is rather equivalent to _quapropter si_, and might be expressed by
- Although Berne had permitted the temporary residence of the deposed count at Oron, and had granted to the countess the revenues of a small piece of land, the refugees soon left the "logis" which they found "_si froid et si mal fourni de vivres_," and repaired to Burgundy and the protection of their powerful de Vergy relatives.
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