ci

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymscurie

   Broaderradioactivity unit

   Partsmillicurie

1. 1.

   being one more than one hundred

   Synonymshundred and oneone hundred one101

   Similarcardinal

Other forms of ci

plural

cis·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ci

What does ci mean?

ci means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ci?

ci has 1 syllable: ci.

What is another word for ci?

Close synonyms include curie, hundred and one, one hundred one, 101. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ci a common word?

ci is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.