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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun curie has 3 senses
- curie(n = noun.quantity) ci - a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second; Array is a kind of radioactivity unit
- curie(n = noun.person) pierre curie - French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906); Array is a kind of physicist
- curie(n = noun.person) madame curie, marie curie, marya sklodowska - French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934); Array is a kind of chemist
has parts: millicurie
OXFORD DICTIONARY
curie, n.
1 a unit of radioactivity, corresponding to 3.7 x 10(10) disintegrations per second.
1 a unit of radioactivity, corresponding to 3.7 x 10(10) disintegrations per second.
Usage
Abbr.: Ci.
2 a quantity of radioactive substance having this activity.
2 a quantity of radioactive substance having this activity.
Etymology
P. Curie, Fr. scientist d. 1906
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