fermi
Plural: fermis
Noun
- A unit of length, equal to one femtometer (10^-15 meters).
- a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter
- 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)
- An obsolete name of the unit of length equal to one femtometre (10⁻¹⁵ m).
Examples
- He played FERMI, a tiny word with big scientific implications for his score.
Origin / Etymology
Named after Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.
Synonyms
Enrico Fermi, femtometer, femtometre
Scrabble Score: 10
fermi: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfermi: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fermi: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
fermi: valid Words With Friends Word