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Curie
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Curie
n.
family name; Marie Curie (1867-1934), Polish physicist and chemist, co-discoverer of radium, Nobel prize winner; Pierre Curie (1857-1906), French physicist and chemist, co-discoverer of radium, Nobel prize winner (husband of Marie)
curie
n.
unit for measuring radioactivity (named after Pierre Curie)
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CURIE
In computing, a CURIE (or Compact URI) defines a generic, abbreviated syntax for expressing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). It is an abbreviated URI expressed in a compact syntax, and may be found in both XML and non-XML grammars. A CURIE may be considered a datatype.
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Curie
The curie (symbol Ci) is a non-SI unit of radioactivity, named 'in honour of' Pierre Curie, according to his widow, the famed radiation researcher Marie Curie, who was on the standards committee and perhaps a more likely candidate for the naming honors.
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Curie
Noun
1. 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)
(synonym) Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska
(hypernym) chemist
2. French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
(synonym) Pierre Curie
(hypernym) physicist
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
(synonym) Ci
(hypernym) radioactivity unit
(part-meronym) millicurie
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Curie
n.
Curie, Marie Curie, (1867-1934), Polish physicist and chemist, co-discoverer of radium; Pierre Curie, (1857-1906), co-discoverer of radium
Curie (das)
n.
curie, unit for measuring radioactivity
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Curie
n.
Curie, family name; Marie Curie (1867-1934), Polish physicist and chemist, co-discoverer of radium, Nobel prize winner; Pierre Curie (1857-1906), French physicist and chemist (husband of Marie)
curie
nf.
curia, place where the senate met in ancient Rome; tribal divisions in ancient Rome; medieval judge's council; curie, unit for measuring radioactivity (named after Pierre Curie)
