Word.ws English Dictionary

sieverts

sieverts is the plural of sievert.

Meaning of sievert

Noun

sievert (plural sieverts)

  1. 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.

See all 2 meanings of sievert

Proper noun capitalized: Sieverts

Sieverts

  1. (plural) plural of Sievert

Questions about sieverts

What is sieverts the plural of?
Sieverts is the plural of sievert.
What part of speech is sieverts?
Sieverts is a proper noun.

Words near sieverts in the dictionary

  1. sievers
  2. Sievers' law
  3. Sievers's law
  4. Sieversian
  5. sievert
  6. sieverts
  7. Sieverts' law
  8. sieves
  9. sievesful
  10. sieveyer
  11. sieveyers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sieverts (page history and authors); Sieverts (page history and authors); sievert (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sieverts.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sieverts. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.