curie Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. 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
   Ci.
   
2. noun French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
   Pierre Curie.
   
3. 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)
   Marie Curie; Madame Curie; Marya Sklodowska.
   

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