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Definition: Curie |
CurieNoun1. 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). 2. French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906). 3. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Aerospace | The unit of the rate of radioactive decay; the quantity of any radioactive nuclide which undergoes 3.70 X 1010 disintegrations per second.Abbreviation C. (references) |
Biographical Satire | CURIE, Madame, one of the few women who got her name in print without being a suffragette or an actress. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Energy | The basic unit used to describe the intensity of radioactivity in a sample of material. The curie is equal to 37 billion (3.7X1010) disintegrations per second, which is approximately the activity of 1 gram of radium. A curie is also a quantity of any radionuclide that decays at a rate of 37 billion disintegrations per second. It is named for Marie and Pierre Curie, who discovered radium in 1898. (Ci). (references) |
Mining | A unit of measurement of radioactivity, defined as the amount of a radionuclide in which the decay rate is 37 billion disintegrations per second, which is approx. equal to the decay rate of 1 g of pure radium. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | Earlier special unit of activity, expressed in disintegrations per second. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The curie (abbreviation Ci) is a former unit of radioactivity, equal to 3.700×1010 decays per second, which is roughly the activity of 1 g of 226Ra. It was named after the pioneers of radiology, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie. It has been replaced by an SI derived unit, the becquerel (Bq).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Curie."
Synonyms: CurieSynonyms: Ci (n), Madame Curie (n), Marie Curie (n), Marya Sklodowska (n), Pierre Curie (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Curie |
| English words defined with "Curie": millicurie ♦ Pierre Curie. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Curie": Magnetic polarity, Microcurie ♦ Nanocurie ♦ Picocurie ♦ thermally neutralised state, thermally neutralized state ♦ virgin state. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Curie" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (cure, curia, Curie), Hungarian (Curie), Italian (Curie), Portuguese (curie), Spanish (Curie). |
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Screenplays | There was what, no one at the mutant hamster races and we had one entry into the Madame Curie look-alike contest and he was disqualified later. (Real Genius; writing credit: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, and Peter Torokvei.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Marie Curie - Une certaine jeune fille (1965) Monsieur et Madame Curie (1956) Madame Curie (1943) Une femme honorable Marie Curie (1990) Marie Curie (1977) | |
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 | M. and Mme. Curie Experimenting with Radium / [from] Drawing by André Castaigne. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Pres. Warren G. Harding escorting Madame Curie down steps to south grounds of the White House. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Marie Curie, Nov. 7, 1867-July 4, 1934--indeed, Madame Curie is the Columbus who has discovered a new continent in science. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Curie" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Curie" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 83.33% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "Curie" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Curie | Last name | 170 | 47,806 |
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Expressions using "Curie": Curie point ♦ Curie temperature ♦ Madame Curie ♦ Marie Curie ♦ Pierre Curie. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Curie": Curie-weiss. | |
Ending with "Curie": Irene Joliot-Curie, Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie, Joliot-Curie. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Curie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الكوري وحدة قياس النشاط الإشعاعي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Кюри. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 居里. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Francouzská Vìdkynì. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Curie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | curie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | curie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | curie (cure, curia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Curie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Ci (Côte d'Ivoire, cell identity, Republic of Côte d'Ivoire), όονάδα Ραδιοενέργειασ, μονάδα Κιουρί. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Curie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | curie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | キャンプ村 (campaign, campaign sale, campsite, Canberra, Canon, Cuba, Cuban heel, cubic, cubic type, cubism, cue, culotte, culotte skirt, Cupid, curacao, curator, cure, curiosity, curium, cute, cuticle, cuticle cream, cuticle remover, cutie, killer, killer dust, kiosk, queue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | キュリー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uriecay curie. (various references) Кюри. (various references) kiri. (various references) Curie. (various references) curie, Kurie. (various references) Küri. (various references) Кюрі. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Curie": curies. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Curie": microcurie, millicurie, multicurie. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Curie": decuries, mercuries, methylmercuries, microcuries, millicuries. (additional references) | |
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"Curie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acuview, caire, carie, carige, cerae, chria, ciria, Cirio, cirize, Clunie, corgie, Coria, Corie, Corio, Corrieu, cortie, couried, cria, crie, crife, Crii, cruci, Cruice, cruir, cruite, cruix, crye, cubry, cuir, cuire, cuirim, culie, cunie, cupie, cupio, curace, curage, curbe, Curdie, Curdiea, curee, curfe, curi, curian, curiar, curic, curier, curiew, curin, curine, curit, curite, curitez, Curme, curri, Curric, curtiei, curua, curule, cury, cutry, cuzie, iuorie, kirie, Kurien, lurie, Mcduhrie, Mclukie, Mcmurtie, Ouvrie, Shourie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Curie" (pronounced kyuhrē" or kyuh"rē) |
| 3 | -uh r ē" | potpourri. |
| 4 | -y uh" r ē | fury. |
| 3 | -uh" r ē | Fleury, jury, Puri, venturi. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ureic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-r-u" | |
-1 letter: cire, cure, ecru, rice, uric. | |
-2 letters: cue, cur, ecu, ice, ire, rec, rei, rue. | |
-3 letters: er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-r-u" | |
+1 letter: cerium, cirque, cruise, curiae, curies, curite, currie, juicer, uremic, uretic. | |
+2 letters: acquire, auricle, brucine, ceriums, cirques, coenuri, courier, cruised, cruiser, cruises, crummie, cuppier, cuprite, curdier, curites, curlier, curried, currier, curries, cursive, curvier, cushier, duckier, epicure, eucrite, flueric, icterus, incurve, inducer, juicers, juicier, lucifer, luckier, muckier, murices, numeric, picture, pumicer, quicker, recruit, reincur, rheumic, saucier, suberic, uraemic, utricle, yuckier. | |
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