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Translingual
Etymology
- (sievert): From Swedish Sievert, named after Swedish medical physicist Rolf Maximilian Sievert
- (svedberg): From Swedish Svedberg, named after Swedish chemist Theodor Svedberg
- (sverdrup): From Norwegian Sverdrup, named after Norwegian oceanographer Harald Sverdrup
Symbol
Sv
- (metrology, SI) sievert, an International System of Units (SI) metric unit of radiation dose equivalent.
- (metrology) svedberg, a non-SI metric unit of sedimentation.
- Synonym: S
- (metrology) sverdrup, a non-SI metric unit of flow.
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