name
Meaning 1
A surname from Italian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fermi
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Pronunciation
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/ˈfɜː(ɹ)mi/
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/ˈfɛə(ɹ)mi/
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CMU ARPABET: F ER1 M IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
The physicist Enrico Fermi
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An obsolete name of the unit of length equal to one femtometre (10−15 m).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
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)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Enrico Fermi
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nuclear physicist
noun
Meaning 5
a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: femtometer, femtometre
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: metric linear unit
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Fermi.
Named after Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.
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