Giorgi
(ˈdʒɔːdʒɪ)
[The name of Giovanni Giorgi (1871–1950), Italian physicist, who first proposed the system in Atti dell' Assoc. elettrotecn. ital. (1901) V. 402–18.]
Giorgi system: a system of units based on the metre, the kilogramme, the second, and one other (electrical) unit; now spec. a system in which the electrical unit is the ampere.
| 1905 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engin. XXXIV. 179 The Giorgi system is a rational one (in the Heaviside sense). 1933 Bull. Nat. Research Council No. 93, 103 Like the Giorgi system, it could be adopted either unrationalized or rationalized. 1934 Nature 21 Apr. 597 (heading) The Giorgi (M.K.S.Ω) system of units. 1964 Internat. System (SI) Units (B.S.I.) 6 This system, called the MKSA or Giorgi System, was adopted by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 1950. 1969 Nature 8 Nov. 581/2 Physically all four of E, H, D and B act as ‘force vectors’. Thus a dimensional difference between the members of each pair, as in the Giorgi systems, results in distortion. |