Fermi
See also: fermi
English
Proper noun
Fermi (countable and uncountable, plural Fermis or Fermies)
- A surname from Italian.
- The physicist Enrico Fermi
Derived terms
- Fermi bubble
- Fermi-Dirac statistics
- Fermi energy
- Fermi estimate
- fermion
- Fermi question
- Fermi surface
- fermium
Italian
Etymology
From the verb fermare (“to stop”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfer.mi/
- Rhymes: -ermi
- Hyphenation: Fér‧mi
Related terms
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