English Explanatory Dictionary

fermi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An obsolete name of the unit of length equal to one femtometre (10⁻¹⁵ m).
name
  1. A surname from Italian.
  2. The physicist Enrico Fermi

Pronunciation

/ˈfɜː(ɹ)mi/ /ˈfɛə(ɹ)mi/

Word forms

fermi fermis Fermies

Etymology

Named after Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.

Derived words

Fermi bubble Fermi-Dirac statistics Fermi energy Fermi estimate Fermi-Kurie plot fermion Fermi paradox Fermi question Fermi surface fermium
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