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Fermi   /fˈərmi/   Listen
Fermi

noun
1.
A metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter.  Synonyms: femtometer, femtometre.
2.
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).  Synonym: Enrico Fermi.



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... were twelve in number. The master of the house, Professor Guarnacci, son of the general-agent of one of them—the Marchesa Fermi, a Roman—had spoken to her about the meeting which was to take place at his house, and had mentioned the discourse to be pronounced by that strange personage about whom all Rome was already talking, knowing him as an enthusiastic religious agitator and miracle worker, most popular ...
— The Saint • Antonio Fogazzaro


Words linked to "Fermi" :   picometre, nuclear physicist, Enrico Fermi, picometer, metric linear unit, micromicron


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