English Explanatory Dictionary

rutherford

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An obsolete unit of radioactivity (symbol: rd), defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one million nuclei decay per second.
name
  1. A Scottish habitational surname from Old English from a place where there was once a settlement in the Scottish borders.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A suburb of Newcastle in the Maitland council area, New South Wales, Australia.
  4. A neighbourhood in south Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  5. A number of places in the United States:
  6. A census-designated place in Napa County, California.
  7. A borough in Bergen County, New Jersey.
  8. A census-designated place in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
  9. An unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia.
  10. An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia.

Pronunciation

/ˈrʌðərfərd/ En-us-Rutherford.oga

Word forms

rutherford rutherfords

Etymology

After Ernest Rutherford.

Synonyms

megabecquerel

Derived words

East Rutherford Rutherford atom Rutherford-Bohr model Rutherford County Rutherfordian rutherfordine rutherfordium Rutherford model Rutherford scattering
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