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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
curie
n 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 [syn: {curie},
{Ci}]
2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
{Curie}, {Pierre Curie}]
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) [syn: {Curie}, {Marie Curie}, {Madame
Curie}, {Marya Sklodowska}]