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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
curie

"unit of radioactivity," 1910, named for Pierre Curie (1859-1906) or his wife, Marie (1867-1934), discoverers of radium.

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curie

n. (surname from=French nodot=1), especially referring to (w: Marie Curie) and her husband (w: Pierre Curie).

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CURIE

In computing, a CURIE (or Compact URI) defines a generic, abbreviated syntax for expressing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). It is an abbreviated URI expressed in a compact syntax, and may be found in both XML and non-XML grammars. A CURIE may be considered a datatype.

An example of CURIE syntax: <nowiki>[isbn:0393315703]</nowiki>

The square brackets may be used to prevent ambiguities between CURIEs and regular URIs, yielding so-called safe CURIEs.

QNames (the namespace prefixes used in XML) often are used as a CURIE, and may be considered a type of CURIE. CURIEs, as defined by the W3C, will be better defined and may include checking. Unlike QNames, the part of a CURIE after the colon does not need to conform to the rules for XML element names.

The first W3C Working Draft of CURIE syntax was released 7 March 2007.

The final recommendation was released 16 January 2009.

Curie (lunar crater)

Curie is a large lunar crater, much of which lies on the far side of the Moon as seen from the Earth. The western rim projects into the near side of the Moon, as defined by the selenographic coordinate system. However the visibility of this formation depends on the effects of libration, so that it can be brought fully into view or completely hidden depending on the orientation of the Moon. When visible, however, it is seen nearly from the side, limiting the amount of detail that can be observed.

Nearby craters of note include Schorr to the northwest and the walled plain Sklodowska to the northeast. Attached to the southeastern rim is the heavily damaged walled plain Lauritsen. Both Sklodowska and Lauritsen are smaller than Curie.

The outer rim of Curie has been damaged and reshaped by nearby impacts. The sides of the rim are relatively linear, giving the crater an overall box-like shape. The eastern part of the rim is partly overlaid by the notable satellite craters Curie C to the northeast and Curie G along the east. At the northern end the rim is overlaid by the small crater Curie Z. Several other small craters lie along the rim, especially to the southwest.

The interior floor of Curie forms a relatively level plain, at least in comparison to the terrain that surrounds the crater. However this floor is disrupted in several locations by small impacts. A cluster of such impacts lies near the southwestern rim, with several of these craters overlapping each other. The small crater Curie K is located in the southeastern part of the floor, and Curie V lies alongside the northwestern inner wall.

Curie (disambiguation)

The Curies were a family of distinguished scientists:

  • Marie Curie (1867–1934), Polish-French chemist and physicist, two time Nobel Prize winner
  • Pierre Curie (1859–1906), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Marie's husband
  • Jacques Curie (1856–1941), French physicist, Pierre's brother
  • Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Marie and Pierre's daughter
  • Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Irène's husband
  • Ève Curie (1904–2007), French-American writer and journalist, Marie and Pierre's second daughter
Curie (Martian crater)

Curie Crater is an impact crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 29.1° N and 4.8° W. It is 114.1 km in diameter and was named after Pierre Curie, a French physicist-chemist (1859-1906).

Impact craters generally have a rim with ejecta around them, in contrast volcanic craters usually do not have a rim or ejecta deposits. As craters get larger (greater than 10 km in diameter) they usually have a central peak. The peak is caused by a rebound of the crater floor following the impact.

Image:Wikicurie.jpg|Curie Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Image:Wikicuriechannels.jpg|Channels in Curie Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Note: this is an enlargement of the previous image. Image:Curie_Crater_Close-up.JPG|Close-up of layers in central mound of Curie Crater, as seen by HiRISE.

Usage examples of "curie".

Working with her new husband, Pierre, Curie found that certain kinds of rocks poured out constant and extraordinary amounts of energy, yet without diminishing in size or changing in any detectable way.

By this time it was much too late for Madame Curie, who died of leukemia in 1934.

In the doorway to the corridor, Rosamund backed up, Madame Curie clutched to her chest.

By 1898, the year that the Curies discovered radium and polonium, I was an accomplished painter and my canvases were now the rage of Paris.

In 1903 the Curies and Becquerel were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.

Shortly afterward he was arraigned on the same charges before the Comitia of the Curies in the Peteline Grove.

Under the spruce by the hedgerow, the curie in the three-cornered hat reading his breviary had lost his right foot, and the very plaster, scaling off with the frost, had left white scabs on his face.

Whether, as Niebuhr maintains, all the free gentiles of the three tribes were called patres or patricians or whether the term was restricted to the heads of houses, it is certain that the head of the house represented it in the senate, and the vote in the curies was by houses, not by individuals en masse.

Professor Pierre Curie, who with his wife, Marie, had discovered the elements polonium and radium the year before.

NETSCO had a group that was intellectually the equal of ours at Romberg AG: Niels Bohr, Theodore von Karman, Norbert Weiner, and Marie Curie.

Jonas Salk and Marie Curie and Lee De Forest and all the rest of them have got to move over, slide aside, get to the back of the bus.

In 1903 the Curies and Becquerel were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.

Whether, as Niebuhr maintains, all the free gentiles of the three tribes were called patres or patricians or whether the term was restricted to the heads of houses, it is certain that the head of the house represented it in the senate, and the vote in the curies was by houses, not by individuals en masse.

Curie piles did not provide the fierce star-interior conditions necessary to breeding the isotopic fuels needed for an atomic-powered rocket.

Curie in October, 1839, about eight years after its introduction into the country, that there were eighteen Homoeopathic physicians in the United Kingdom, of whom only three were to be found out of London, and that many of these practised Homoeopathy in secret.