Si

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  • noun. Ti.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In solmization, the syllable used for the seventh tone of the scale, or the leading tone.
  • noun. The chemical symbol of silicon.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.
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  • noun. 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)
  • noun. the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization
  • noun. 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
  • Word Usage
    "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."