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multicurie

multicurie adjective: pertaining to, or emitting, multiple curies (radiation units).

Adjective

multicurie (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to, or emitting, multiple curies (radiation units).
    • The facility is a flexible, relatively simple system of enclosures for handling multicurie amounts of alpha, gamma, and neutron-emitting radioisotopes.1964, Albert V Crewe, Joseph Jacob Katz, Research, U.S.A.: knowledge for the future

Origin of multicurie

From multi- + curie.

Questions about multicurie

What does multicurie mean?
Multicurie means pertaining to, or emitting, multiple curies (radiation units).
What part of speech is multicurie?
Multicurie is an adjective.

Words near multicurie in the dictionary

  1. multiculturally
  2. multiculture
  3. multicultured
  4. multicultures
  5. multiculturism
  6. multicurie
  7. multicurrency
  8. multicurrent
  9. multicurricular
  10. multicursal
  11. multicurve

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