sievert
See also: Sievert
English
Etymology
From Swedish Sievert. Named after the Swedish radiologist Rolf Sievert.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsiː.vət/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈsiː.vɚt/
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)
Derived terms
Translations
SI unit of radiation dose
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Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsiːvɛrt]
Noun
sievert m inan
- sievert (unit of radiation dose)
Declension
Declension of sievert (hard masculine inanimate)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sievert | sieverty |
| genitive | sievertu | sievertů |
| dative | sievertu | sievertům |
| accusative | sievert | sieverty |
| vocative | sieverte | sieverty |
| locative | sievertu | sievertech |
| instrumental | sievertem | sieverty |
Further reading
- “sievert”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsie̯ʋert/, [ˈs̠ie̞̯ʋe̞rt̪]
- Rhymes: -ieʋert
- Syllabification(key): sie‧vert
- Hyphenation(key): sie‧vert
Noun
sievert
- sievert (unit of radiation dose)
Declension
| Inflection of sievert (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | sievert | sievertit | |
| genitive | sievertin | sievertien | |
| partitive | sievertiä | sievertejä | |
| illative | sievertiin | sieverteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | sievert | sievertit | |
| accusative | nom. | sievert | sievertit |
| gen. | sievertin | ||
| genitive | sievertin | sievertien | |
| partitive | sievertiä | sievertejä | |
| inessive | sievertissä | sieverteissä | |
| elative | sievertistä | sieverteistä | |
| illative | sievertiin | sieverteihin | |
| adessive | sievertillä | sieverteillä | |
| ablative | sievertiltä | sieverteiltä | |
| allative | sievertille | sieverteille | |
| essive | sievertinä | sieverteinä | |
| translative | sievertiksi | sieverteiksi | |
| abessive | sievertittä | sieverteittä | |
| instructive | — | sievertein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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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
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsi.veʁ.t͡ʃi/ [ˈsi.veh.t͡ʃi]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈsi.veɾ.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈsi.veʁ.t͡ʃi/ [ˈsi.veχ.t͡ʃi]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /ˈsi.veɻ.t͡ʃi/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsi.vɐɾt/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsi.bɐɾt/ [ˈsi.βɐɾt]
Noun
sievert m (plural sieverts)
Further reading
- “sievert”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “sievert”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Noun
sievert m (plural sieverts)
Further reading
- “sievert”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026
Swedish
Etymology
Named after Swedish physicist Rolf Maximilian Sievert.
Pronunciation
Noun
sievert c
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