curie

Noun curie has 3 senses

• curie(n = noun.quantity) 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;
is a kind of radioactivity unit
has parts: millicurie

• curie(n = noun.person) pierre curie - French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906);
is a kind of physicist

• curie(n = noun.person) madame curie, marie 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);
is a kind of chemist