FERMI as NOUN

1. 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)
   Synonym(s)
   • Enrico Fermi (what does Enrico Fermi mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Fermi is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • nuclear physicist (what does nuclear physicist mean?)
2. Meaning
   • a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter
   Synonym(s)
   • femtometer (what does femtometer mean?)
   • femtometre (what does femtometre mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) fermi is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • metric linear unit (what does metric linear unit mean?)