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SI unit stands for the 'International System of Units'. It is the modern form of the metric system, and is the most widely used system of measurement. It is made up of 7 standard units. It justify twenty-two named units, and includes many more unnamed coherent derived units. The system also establishes a set of twenty prefixes to the unit names and unit symbols that may be used when specifying multiples and fractions of the units.

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