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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation sievert
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of the Now Latin spiritus vini rectificatus, rectified spirit of wine.
- noun An abbreviation of the Latin spiritus vini tenuior, proof-spirit.
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- noun metrology
sievert , aunit ofradiation dose equivalent . - noun
svedberg
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Examples
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In 1904, after an interval of short stories, letters of travel, and poems, came the story entitled Sværmere.
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As Wideman has played with worse teammates (Corsi Rel QoT) and the goalies behind him performed worse (On ice Sv%), his plus minus took a nose dive.
Statistical analysis: A closer look at Dennis Wideman's plus-minus rating 2011
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A microsievert (μSv)is one millionth of a sievert (Sv), which is a standard international unit of radiation dose.
Leigh Vinocur, M.D.: Full Body Scanners: Should You Really Be Concerned? M.D. Leigh Vinocur 2010
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A microsievert (μSv)is one millionth of a sievert (Sv), which is a standard international unit of radiation dose.
Leigh Vinocur, M.D.: Airport Scanners: Should You Really Be Concerned? M.D. Leigh Vinocur 2010
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A microsievert (μSv)is one millionth of a sievert (Sv), which is a standard international unit of radiation dose.
Leigh Vinocur, M.D.: Airport Scanners: Should You Really Be Concerned? M.D. Leigh Vinocur 2010
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The flux of sea ice southward through Fram Strait is known to be about 0.09 Sv [11], but the southward flux of seasonal sea ice formed outside the Arctic Ocean in the Barents, Bering, and Labrador Seas; the Canadian Archipelago; Hudson and Baffin Bays; and East Greenland is not known.
Marine Arctic 2009
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The present “freshwater” flux through Bering Strait is about 0.07 Sv [8].
Marine Arctic 2009
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The total influx to the marine Arctic from rivers is 0.18 Sv [9], about 2.5 times the “freshwater” flux of the Pacific inflow through Bering Strait.
Marine Arctic 2009
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The sievert (symbol: Sv) is the SI derived unit of dose equivalent.
Sievert 2009
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In some fields, rem and mrem continue to be used along with Sv and mSv, causing significant confusion (1 Sv = 100 rem, 10 mSv = 1 rem).
Sievert 2009
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