WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

curie
    n 1: 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]
    2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
       Curie, Pierre Curie]
    3: 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]