curie
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1. 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) (noun.person)
| instance hypernym | : | chemist, |
| definition | : | a scientist who specializes in chemistry (noun.person) |
2. French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) (noun.person)
| instance hypernym | : | physicist, |
| definition | : | a scientist trained in physics (noun.person) |
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 (noun.quantity)
| hypernym | : | radioactivity unit, |
| definition | : | a measure of radioactivity (noun.quantity) |
| part holonym | : | millicurie, |
| definition | : | a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie (noun.quantity) |
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