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Meaning of FERMI
Pronunciation:
'furmee, 'furmee
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Definition:
[n]
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)
[n]
a
metric
unit
of
length
equal
to
one
quadrillionth
of
a
meter
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Synonyms:
Enrico Fermi
,
femtometer
,
femtometre
See Also:
metric linear unit
,
micromicron
,
nuclear physicist
,
picometer
,
picometre
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