rutherford

Other forms of rutherford

plural

rutherfords·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rutherford

What does rutherford mean?

rutherford means "a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rutherford?

rutherford has 3 syllables: rut-her-ford. The stress falls on "rut". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌθɚfɚd/.

What is another word for rutherford?

Close synonyms include Daniel Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford of Nelson. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rutherford a common word?

rutherford is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.