curie meaning
UK US /kjʊˈri/ 2 syllables
curie (noun): 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.
curie has 3 meanings in this dictionary.
curie as a noun
- 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
Synonyms: Ci
Type of: radioactivity unit
- French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
Synonyms: Pierre Curie
Type of: physicist
- 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)
Synonyms: Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska
Type of: chemist
How to pronounce curie
curie is pronounced /kjʊˈri/ in American English. It has 2 syllables, with the stress on the second syllable.
Words that rhyme with curie
Scrabble score: 7 (letter breakdown)
Word lists: words starting with CU · words ending in IE · 5-letter words
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