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English noun: curie | |||
| 1. | curie (quantity) 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | radioactivity unit | ||
| Part holonym | millicurie | ||
| 2. | Curie (person) French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) | ||
| Synonyms | Pierre Curie | ||
| Instance hypernym | physicist | ||
| 3. | Curie (person) 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 | Madame Curie, Marie Curie, Marya Sklodowska | ||
| Instance hypernym | chemist | ||
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