-si

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Maffioso \Maf`fi*o"so\, Mafioso \Ma`fi*o"so\, n.; pl. {-si}.
     [It. maffioso.]
     A member of the mafia.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  SI
       n 1: 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); "Today
            the United States is the only country in the world not
            totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites"
            [syn: {Systeme International d'Unites}, {Systeme
            International}, {SI system}, {International System of
            Units}, {International System}]
       2: 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 [syn: {silicon}, {atomic
          number 14}]
       3: the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any
          musical scale in solmization [syn: {ti}, {te}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SI
       Schweizer Informatikergesellschaft (org., Switzerland)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SI
       Skyrslutaeknifelags Islands (org., Iceland)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SI
       Source Index [register] (CPU, Intel, assembler)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SI
       SPARC International (org., manufacturer)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SI
       System Information
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  SI
       
          1.  {Systčme International}.
       
          2.  {Shift In}.
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  si
       
           The {country code} for Slovenia.
       
          (1999-01-27)