Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A silvery metallic synthetic radioactive transuranic element. Its longest lived isotope is Cm 247 with a half-life of 16.4 million years. Atomic number 96; melting point (estimated) 1,350°C; valence 3. See Table at element.
Wiktionary
- n. A transuranic chemical element (symbol Cm) with an atomic number of 96.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a radioactive transuranic element of atomic number 96, having an atomic weight of 247 for its most stable isotope (half-life 1.6 x 107 years). The chemical symbol is Cm.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei
Etymologies
- Named after Pierre and Marie Curie. (Wiktionary)
- After Marie Curie and Pierre Curie. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Small point: firefox auto-spell check prefers curium over curiam, though it is not attempting anything other than a dictionary search.”
“A quick Westlaw search through Allcases (date 5/1/2010) confirms that “per curium” is still nonstandard: “Per curiam” gets 1427 hits, “per curium” only 10.”
“Yet “per curium” is common enough to be warning people against: A search through the Brief-All file (date 1/1/2010) reports 88 instances of “per curium.””
“What I never understood is why people add in a parenthetical stating that the decision is a “per curiam” — or, for that matter, a “per curium.””
“A tip for lawyers (and others): The standard phrase for certain kinds of unsigned court opinions is “per curiam,” not “per curium” — except perhaps in science fiction stories involving decisionmaking by artificially intelligent radioactive-element-driven quantum computers.”
“A tip for lawyers and others: The standard phrase for certain kinds of unsigned court opinions is “per curiam,” not “per curium” — except perhaps in science fiction stories involving decisionmaking by artificially intelligent radioactive-element-driven quantum computers.”
“A quick Westlaw search through Allcases date 5/1/2010 confirms that “per curium” is still nonstandard: “Per curiam” gets 1427 hits, “per curium” only 10.”
“A contemporary English speaker who uses “per curium” has made a simple mistake, and unless Latin comes back into everyday use, the Latin language will never evolve to embrace it.”
“Yet “per curium” is common enough to be warning people against: A search through the Brief-All file date 1/1/2010 reports 88 instances of “per curium.””
“If a Latin speaker were to use the phrase “per curium,” he would mean “by or according to the city in Cyprus” i.e., Kourion.”
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