MILLICURIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does millicurie mean? 

• MILLICURIE (noun)
  The noun MILLICURIE has 1 sense:

1. a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie

  Familiarity information: MILLICURIE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLICURIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("millicurie" is a kind of...):

radioactivity unit (a measure of radioactivity)

Holonyms ("millicurie" is a part of...):

Ci; curie (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)

 Context examples 

A unit of specific radioactivity (massic activity) equal to activity of one millicurie of the sample with total mass of one kilogram.

(Millicurie per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)