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English
Etymology
From Swedish Sievert. Named after the Swedish radiologist Rolf Sievert.
Pronunciation
Noun
sievert (plural sieverts)
- In the International System of Units, the derived unit of radiation dose: the dose received in one hour at a distance of 1 cm from a point source of 1 mg of radium in a 0.5 mm thick platinum enclosure, which in its biological effects corresponds to several different quantities: equivalent dose, effective dose, and committed dose.
- Alternative form: Sv (symbol)
Translations
SI unit of radiation dose
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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
sievert m inan
- sievert (unit of radiation dose)
Declension
Declension of sievert (hard masculine inanimate)
Further reading
- “sievert”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995
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Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
sievert
- sievert (unit of radiation dose)
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
sievert m (plural sieverts)
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Portuguese
Etymology
Named after the Swedish radiologist Rolf Sievert.
Pronunciation
Noun
sievert m (plural sieverts)
Further reading
- “sievert”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “sievert”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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Spanish
Noun
sievert m (plural sieverts)
Further reading
- “sievert”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
Swedish
Etymology
Named after Swedish physicist Rolf Maximilian Sievert.
Pronunciation
Noun
sievert c
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