CURIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Curie mean? 

• CURIE (noun)
  The noun CURIE has 3 senses:

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

3. 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)

  Familiarity information: CURIE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

Ci; curie

Hypernyms ("curie" is a kind of...):

radioactivity unit (a measure of radioactivity)

Meronyms (parts of "curie"):

millicurie (a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie)

Sense 2

Meaning:

French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Curie; Pierre Curie

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Curie; Madame Curie; Marie Curie; Marya Sklodowska

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

 Context examples 

It would give the number of Becquerels or Curies present at a particular noted time.

(Dose Calibrator, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of volumetric radioactivity concentration defined as a concentration of a radionuclide with an activity equal to one curie per unit volume equal to one milliliter.

(Curie per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of radioactivity defined as 3.7E-5 atomic disintegrations or other nuclear transformations per second or one quadrillionth of curie (10E-15 curie).

(Femtocurie, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of volumetric radioactivity concentration defined as a concentration of a radionuclide with an activity equal to one millionth of a curie per unit volume equal to one liter.

(Microcurie per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of radioactivity defined as 0.037 atomic disintegrations or other nuclear transformations per second or one trillionth of curie (10E-12 curie).

(Picocurie, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of volumetric radioactivity concentration defined as a concentration of a radionuclide with an activity equal to one thousandth of a curie per unit volume equal to one liter.

(Millicurie per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of volumetric radioactivity concentration defined as a concentration of a radionuclide with an activity equal to one curie per unit volume equal to one millionth of a liter.

(Curie per Microliter, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of specific radioactivity (massic activity) equal to activity of one Curie of the sample with total mass of one milligram.

(Curie per Milligram, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of specific radioactivity (massic activity) equal to activity of one Curie of the sample with total mass of one microgram.

(Curie per Microgram, NCI Thesaurus)

One curie is equal to 37 gigabecquerels.

(Curie, NCI Thesaurus)