Rutherford Definition

rŭthər-fərd
noun
A unit for measuring radioactive decay, equal to the mass (of a given substance) required to give off one million disintegrations per second; one million becquerels: symbol, rd.
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Synonyms:
  • Daniel Rutherford
  • First Baron Rutherford
  • First Baron Rutherford of Nelson
  • ernest rutherford
pronoun

A Scottish habitational surname from a place where there was once a settlement in the Scottish borders.

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Noun

Singular:
rutherford
Plural:
rutherfords

Origin of Rutherford

  • Old English hryðer (“cattle") + ford (“ford").

    From Wiktionary

  • After Ernest Rutherford

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • After Ernest Rutherford.

    From Wiktionary

Rutherford Sentence Examples

  • Rutherford examined it very carefully, and produced a magnetic detector for electric waves depending upon the power of electric oscillations in a coil to demagnetize a saturated bundle of steel wires placed in it.

  • Rutherford used this detector to make evident the passage of an electric or Hertzian wave for half a mile across Cambridge, England.

  • Unlike the " National Covenant " of 1638, which applied to Scotland only, this document was common to the two kingdoms. Henderson, Baillie, Rutherford and others were sent up to London to represent Scotland in the Assembly at Westminster.

  • The production in Rutherford and Burke counties and their vicinity was so great, and transportation to the United States Mint at Philadelphia so difficult, that from 1831 to 1857 gold was privately coined in I, 22 and 5 dollar pieces bearing the mark of the coiner " C. Bechtler, Rutherford county, N.C."

  • Rutherford, who showed that on removing oxygen from air a gas remained, which was incapable of supporting combustion or respiration.

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Words Starting With

RRURUT

Words Ending With

DRDORD

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Words Starting With R and Ending With D

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