'curie' definitions:
Definition of 'curie'
(from WordNet)
noun
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 [syn: curie, Ci]
noun
French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn: Curie, Pierre Curie]
noun
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) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska]