| curie | (n) 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. Ci |
| curie | (n) French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906), Syn. Pierre Curie |
| curie | (n) 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. Marya Sklodowska, Madame Curie, Marie Curie |
| curie temperature | (n) the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic, Syn. Curie point |