Associations to the word «Ci»

Wiktionary

CI, symbol. The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Côte d'Ivoire.
CI, symbol. Symbol for curie, a unit of radioactivity.
CI PROTEIN, noun. A repressor found in λ phage (a bacteriophage that particularly infects the human digestive bacteria, E. coli) which turns off genetic transcription at the phage's L and R promoters, and thus prevents multiple phages from infecting a single host.

Dictionary definition

CI, noun. A unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second.
CI, adjective. Being one more than one hundred.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats