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

2 senses of fermi

Sense 1
femtometer, femtometre, fermi -- (a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter)
       => metric linear unit -- (a linear unit of distance in metric terms)

Sense 2
Fermi, Enrico Fermi -- (Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954))
       INSTANCE OF=> nuclear physicist -- (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)