Meanings
curie1
plural curies
- 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.
Curie2
- A surname from French, especially referring to Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.
CURIE3
plural CURIEs
- abbreviationacronymsemantic webAcronym of compact URI expression.
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
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
curie · noun
- Frenchcurie
- Englishcurie
Borrowed from French curie. Named after French physicist Pierre Curie (1859–1906).
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Curie · proper noun
- Old Frenchéscuerie
- FrenchCurie
- EnglishCurie
Borrowed from French Curie.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 居里
- 居里 (jūlǐ)unit of radioactivity
Japanese キュリー
- キュリー (kyuri-)unit of radioactivity
Russian кюри
- кюри (kyuri)unit of radioactivity
Thai กูรี, กูว์รี
- กูรี (guu-rii)unit of radioactivity
- กูว์รี (guu-rii)unit of radioactivity
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Cite this entry
curie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curie
“curie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curie. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “curie,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curie.
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