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Definition of Fermi

1. Noun. A metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter.

2. Noun. 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 of Fermi

1. Proper noun. (surname from=Italian) ¹

2. Proper noun. The physicist Enrico Fermi. ¹

3. Noun. A unit of length equal to one femtometer or femtometre (10⁻¹⁵ m). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fermi

1. a unit of length [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fermi

Ferdinand the Great Fere phenomenon Ferenc Molnar Fergie Fergon Fergus Fergus mac Róich Ferguses Ferguson Fergusson's incision

Feringee Feringees Feringhee Feringhees Fermat Fermi (current term) Fermi-Dirac statistics Fermi energies Fermi energy Fermi paradox

Fermi surface Fermi surfaces Fernand Leger Fernandez reaction Fernando Fernao Magalhaes Fernbach flask Ferocactus Ferrara

Literary usage of Fermi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Fermi himself took very few Ph.D. students (Geoffrey Chew and I were the first ... Fermi often complained that he never had been able to establish a ..."

2. Quantum and Fermion Differential Geometry by Robert Hermann (1977)
"LINEAR HEISENBERG-Fermi STRUCTURES ON A VECTOR SPACE AND THEIR FOCK REPRESENTATIONS In the last section we have seen that harmonic oscillators define the ..."

3. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb by F. G. Gosling (1999)
"Beginning in 1934, the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi began bombarding elements ... Like other scientists at the time, Fermi paid little attention to the ..."

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