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fermi

n. A unit of length equal to one femtometer or femtometre (10−15 m).

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fermi
  1. n. a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter [syn: femtometer, femtometre]

  2. Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954) [syn: Enrico Fermi]

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Fermi (disambiguation)

Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) was an Italian physicist who created the world's first nuclear reactor.

Fermi may also refer to:

Fermi (crater)

Fermi is a large lunar crater of the category named a walled plain. It lies on the far side of the Moon and can not be viewed from the Earth. Thus this feature must be viewed from an orbiting spacecraft.

The most notable aspect of Fermi is that the large and prominent crater Tsiolkovskiy intrudes into its southeastern rim. Unlike Tsiolkovskiy, however, the interior of Fermi is not covered by dark basaltic lava, and so it is barely distinguishable from the surrounding rugged and battered terrain. If it were located on the near side of the Moon, however, this would be one of the largest visible craters, with a dimension roughly equal to the crater Humboldt, lying several hundred kilometers to the west-southwest.

This formation has been significantly eroded and damaged by subsequent impacts, and several notable craters lie across the rim and within the basin. Delporte is the most notable of these, lying across the northwest rim. Just to the east and inside the northern rim of Fermi is Litke. The smaller crater Xenophon is centered across the southern rim. In the southern half of the floor are the craters Diderot and Babakin.

The rim, where it survives, is the most intact along the northern half. The southern half of the rim has been nearly obliterated, forming an irregular stretch of ground. The interior floor of Fermi has been modified by the creation of Tsiolkovskiy, with striations in the northeastern floor of Fermi, and parallel ridges along the western rim of Tsiolkovskiy. The remaining sections of the floor is somewhat more level, although pock-marked by myriads of tiny craterlets. The central section of the floor in particular has several clustered crater formations.

Fermi (Turin Metro)

Fermi is a Turin Metro station, located in the Turin suburb of Collegno. Being the westerly terminus of Line 1, there is an adjacent park and ride lot with more than 300 spaces and connecting bus service from Rivoli.

Fermi (microarchitecture)

Fermi is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Tesla microarchitecture. It was the primary microarchitecture used in the GeForce 400 series and GeForce 500 series. It was followed by Kepler, and used alongside Kepler in the GeForce 600 series, GeForce 700 series, and GeForce 800 series, in the latter two only in mobile GPUs. In the workstation market, Fermi found use in the Quadro x000 series, Quadro NVS models, as well as in Nvidia Tesla computing modules. All desktop Fermi GPUs were manufactured in 40 nm, mobile Fermi GPUs in 40 nm and 28 nm.

The architecture is named after Enrico Fermi, an Italian physicist.

Fermi (supercomputer)

Fermi is a 2.097 petaFLOPS supercomputer located in Cineca.

Usage examples of "fermi".

Enrico Fermi helped his wife Laura down from their wagon, then waved to Yeager.

Enrico Fermi, who was serving as best man, slapped Yeager on the back.

As far as he was concerned, having Fermi as his best man was almostnot quiteas exciting as getting married to Barbara.

Enrico Fermi picked that precise moment to walk up, hand in hand, with his wife Laura.

A couple of more wagons pulled up in front of Science Hall before he saw more people he knew: Enrico and Laura Fermi, looking incongruous on a tarp-covered hay wagon.

Along with the rest of the physicists, Jens Larssen watched tensely as Enrico Fermi manipulated the levers that raised the cadmium control rods from the heart of the rebuilt atomic pile under the University of Denver football stadium.

He leaned toward Fermi, using his physical presence to make his point for him.

Of course Fermi could not see him, but he was embarrassed even to be talking to the Italian physicist, a dignified man if ever there was one, with trousers at half-mast.

He nodded to Enrico Fermi, one of the two or three men who had beaten him to the meeting.

Szilard said, and all at once Larssen was certain he and Fermi had planned their strategy together ahead of time.

Enrico Fermi answered, which left Yeager little wiser than he had been before.

When Fermi told him, he wrote it on the top and two sides of the box in big black letters.

He was heading back to give Fermi more help when Barbara Larssen came out of a nearby room.

And from what Fermi said, every gadget here had to be treated as irreplaceable.

They had all agreed that there was no good reason for any of them to come visit him in Fermi, especially since he would probably be spending his time there under house arrest.