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; Nobelprize for physics 1903, for chemistry 1911.
4. Curie her husband, Pierre, 1859–1906, French physicist and chemist: codiscoverer of radium; Nobelprize for physics 1903.
Definition of 'curie'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)curie, Ci a unit of radioactivityequal 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 Frenchchemist (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)