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Meaning

SI Units are the standard scientific units used by scientists around the world.

About SI Units

SI stands for "Système international".
SI units have been standardised around the world so that any experiment can be reproduced and so that components in machines are interchangeable.
The USA does not always use SI Units. As a result of the confusion over units a space probe once crashed on Mars because one team of scientists was using inches and the other team was using hundredths of metre (centimetres).