This is a list of units that are not defined as part of the
International System of Units (SI) but are otherwise mentioned in the SI Brochure,
[ Bureau international des poids et mesures, "Non-SI units that are accepted for use with the SI", in]
Le Système international d'unités (SI) / The International System of Units (SI), 9th ed.
(Sèvres: 2019), , c. 4, pp. 145–146. listed as being accepted for use alongside SI-units, or for explanatory purposes.
Units officially accepted for use with the SI
The SI prefixes can be used with several of these units, but not, for example, with the non-SI units of time.
Other units defined but not officially sanctioned
The following table lists units that are effectively defined in side- and footnotes in the 9th SI brochure. Units that are mentioned without a definition or that occur in historical material recorded in the appendices are not included.
Changes to units mentioned in the SI
With the publication of each edition of the SI brochure, the list of non-SI units listed in tables changed compared to the preceding SI brochures.
[ Bureau international des poids et mesures]
Le Système international d'unités (SI) / The International System of Units (SI), 8th ed.
(Sèvres: Organisation Intergouvernementale de la Convention du Mètre, 2006‑05), . The table below compares the status of each unit for which the status has changed between editions of the SI Brochure.
In this table, the status descriptions have the following meanings:
* "accepted": The unit is accepted for use with the SI.
* "temporarily accepted": The unit is accepted for use with the SI, but is planned to be phased out.
* "listed": The unit is defined in a table of units in the brochure but not accepted for use with the SI.
* "footnote only": The unit is defined in a footnote or side note, without any mention in the main text.
* "not mentioned": There is no mention of the unit in the brochure, excluding historical appendices.
See also
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International System of Quantities
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International vocabulary of metrology The Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology (JCGM) is an organization in Sèvres that prepared the "Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement" (GUM) and the "International Vocabulary of Metrology" (VIM). The JCGM assumed responsibility f ...
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Metric prefix
A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or submultiple of the unit. All metric prefixes used today are decadic. Each prefix has a unique symbol that is prepended to any unit symbol. The pr ...
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SI base unit
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SI derived unit
Notes and references
Notes
References
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