Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun curie

3 senses of curie

Sense 1
curie, Ci -- (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)
       => radioactivity unit -- (a measure of radioactivity)

Sense 2
Curie, Pierre Curie -- (French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906))
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 3
Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> chemist -- (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)