Definitions for Curie

Curie cu·rie

Spelling: [kyoo r-ee, kyoo-ree]
IPA: /ˈkyʊər i, kyʊˈri/

Curie is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in Curie (ceiru).

Definitions for Curie

noun

  1. a unit of activity of radioactive substances equivalent to 3.70 × 10 10 disintegrations per second: it is approximately the amount of activity produced by 1 gram of radium-226. Abbreviation: Ci.
  2. Irène [French ee-ren] /French iˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), Joliot-Curie, Irène.
  3. Marie [muh-ree;; French ma-ree] /məˈri;; French maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1867–1934, Polish physicist and chemist in France: codiscoverer of radium 1898; Nobel Prize in Physics 1903, for chemistry 1911.
  4. her husband, Pierre [pee-air;; French pyer] /piˈɛər;; French pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1859–1906, French physicist and chemist: codiscoverer of radium; Nobel Prize in Physics 1903.

Origin of Curie

First recorded in 1910; named in memory of Pierre Curie

Examples for Curie

Madame curie laughed as if she had never noticed this before.

Mme. curie is deservedly popular in French scientific circles.

Professor curie himself has a number of bad scars on his hands and arms due to ulcers caused by handling radium.

It is one of many similar pinches sealed in little glass tubes and owned by Professor curie, of Paris.

Madame curie was a Polish girl; she came to Paris to study, very poor, but possessed of rare talents.

Now, at the same time as many other investigators, Professor curie and his Polish wife took up the search.

The work of Professor and Mme. curie was merely the final clue to guide the great search.

The list of learned societies to which Mme. curie belongs is an extended one.

Very rarely have a man and woman worked together so perfectly as Professor curie and his wife.

But it does seem to me as if I've seen Mr. curie's face somewheres or other. '

Word Value for Curie
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7

Words with friends

9

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