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Curie Definition & Meaning

curie
noun
  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)

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What does curie mean?
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 French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) 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)
What part of speech is curie?
Curie is a noun.
How many definitions does curie have?
Curie has 3 definitions across 1 part of speech (noun).

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