Definition of curie

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Definition of curie

  • 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 (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. ci
  • French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. pierre curie
  • 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) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. madame curie
    2. marie curie
    3. marya sklodowska

See definition of curie in Merriam Webster