| NOUN | quantity | fermi, femtometer, femtometre | a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter |
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| person | Fermi, Enrico Fermi | 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) |
| Sounds | fer'miy | |
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| Rhymes | academy ... yummy: 83 rhymes with miy... | |
| Meaning | A metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter. | |
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| Synonyms | femtometer, femtometre | |
| Part of | picometer, picometre, micromicron | A metric unit of length equal to one trillionth of a meter |
| Broader | metric linear unit | A linear unit of distance in metric terms |
| Spanish | femtometer, femtometre, femtometro | |
| Catalan | femtometer, femtometre, fermi | |
| Meaning | 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). | |
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| Synonym | Enrico Fermi | |
| Instance of | nuclear physicist | A physicist who specializes in nuclear physics |
| Spanish | Enrico Fermi, Fermi | |
| Catalan | Enrico Fermi, Fermi | |
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