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 Definitions of curie  [ˈkyʊər i, kyʊˈri]  

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Definition of 'curie' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) curie
a unit of activity of radioactive substances equivalent to 3.70 &xtimes; 1010 disintegrations per second.

2. (n.) Curie
Irène,

3.  Curie
Marie, 1867–1934, Polish physicist and chemist in France: codiscoverer of radium 1898; Nobel prize for physics 1903, for chemistry 1911.

4.  Curie
her husband, Pierre, 1859–1906, French physicist and chemist: codiscoverer of radium; Nobel prize for physics 1903.


Definition of 'curie' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) curie, 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

2. (noun) Curie, Pierre Curie
French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)

3. (noun) Curie, Marie Curie, Madame 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)



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