millicurie

[ mil-i-kyoor-ee, -kyoo-ree ]

noun

, Physics, Chemistry.

1. a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie; 3.70 × 10 7 disintegrations per second. : mCi, mc

Word History and Origins

Origin of millicurie¹

First recorded in 1905–10; milli- + curie