Curie Meaning
/kjʊˈri/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
noun3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.
nameA surname from French, especially referring to Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.
Sentence Examples
It was Marie Curie who discovered radium.
She is another Madame Curie.
In fact, Marie Curie is Polish, not French.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The lab measured the radioactive sample's activity in ____ per second.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It was Marie ____ who discovered radium.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from French curie. Named after French physicist Pierre Curie (1859–1906).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2011, John Hebeler, Matthew Fisher, Ryan Blace, Andrew Perez-Lopez, Semantic Web Programming, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 400:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The lab measured the radioactive sample's activity in ____ per second.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It was Marie ____ who discovered radium.