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curie   (TTS Sound)

The noun curie has 3 senses

• curie, Ci -- (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)


• Curie, Pierre Curie -- (French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906))


• Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska -- (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))