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curie

/ˈkjɔː.ɹi/

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Anglicised/ˈkjʊə.ɹi/

curie noun: 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.

Noun (1)

curie (plural curies)

  1. 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.

Noun (2) capitalized: CURIE

CURIE (plural CURIEs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, semantic web) Acronym 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

Proper noun capitalized: Curie

Curie

  1. A surname from French, especially referring to Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.

curie meaning in Thai

curie in Thai

unit of radioactivity
กูรี guu-rii, กูว์รี guu-rii

Forms of curie

pluralcuries
pluralCURIEs

Plural of curie: curies

Origin of curie

Borrowed from French curie. Named after French physicist Pierre Curie (1859–1906).

Borrowed from French Curie.

Words formed from curie

Phrases with curie

Words that rhyme with curie

Questions about curie

What does curie mean?
Curie means 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.
What is curie in Thai?
Curie in Thai is กูรี (guu-rii), กูว์รี (guu-rii). See Curie meaning in Thai.
What part of speech is curie?
Curie can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce curie?
Curie is pronounced /ˈkjʊə.ɹi/ (Anglicised).
What is the plural of curie?
The plural of curie is curies.

Words near curie in the dictionary

  1. curiara
  2. curiaras
  3. curias
  4. curiate
  5. Curicó
  6. curie
  7. Curie point
  8. Curie points
  9. Curie temperature
  10. Curie temperatures
  11. Curie's law

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curie (page history and authors); CURIE (page history and authors); Curie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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