curie

CEFRC1

/kjʊˈri/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A unit used to measure radioactivity.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A surname from French, especially referring to Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.

Examples

  • In fact, Marie Curie is Polish, not French.

  • It was Marie Curie who discovered radium.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Acronym of compact URI expression.

  2. 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.

More examples

In context

  • She is another Madame Curie.

  • By using safe CURIE notation, where the CURIE is surrounded by square brackets ([ or ]), an RDFa parser can interpret the proper type of URI used.

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The lab measured the radioactive sample's activity in blank per second.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from French curie. Named after French physicist Pierre Curie (1859–1906).