American English pronunciation
How to pronounce sis
IPA transcription: ['sɪs]
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Noun
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a female person who has the same parents as another person
“my sister married a musician”
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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
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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”
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the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization
Usage examples
- The act also provided Federal funding assistance towards non-food purchases for school equipment.
- A cost-benefit analysis often dictates which disaster recovery measures are implemented.
- And there were dunes, rocks, and plants that insisted on living where survival seemed impossible.
- One of the major themes of the work is Salimbene's emphasis on numerology.
- Similarly, capacity increases were sanctioned on a reciprocal basis only.
- Pyruvate is an end product of glycolysis, and is oxidized within the mitochondria.
- They did so without bassist Dougie Thomson.
- Many biochemical events also lend themselves to stochastic analysis.
- His first job was as a veterinary assistant cleaning cages.
- Inconsistent English rendering of the village's name compounds the issue.