Usually means: Unit of radioactive decay measurement.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word rutherford:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rutherford, Rutherford: Merriam-Webster
  2. Rutherford: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rutherford: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rutherford: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Rutherford, rutherford: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rutherford, rutherford: Wordnik
  7. Rutherford, rutherford: Wiktionary
  8. rutherford: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Rutherford: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Rutherford: Dictionary.com
  11. Rutherford (rocket engine), Rutherford (surname), Rutherford (unit), Rutherford: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Rutherford: Rhymezone
  13. rutherford: FreeDictionary.org
  14. rutherford: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. rutherford: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Rutherford: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rutherford: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rutherford: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. rutherford: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rutherford: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Rutherford: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rutherfords as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Rutherford)

noun:  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.
noun:  A Scottish habitational surname from Old English from a place where there was once a settlement in the Scottish borders.
noun:  (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  A suburb of Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.
noun:  A neighbourhood in south Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place in Napa County, California.
noun:  A borough in Bergen County, New Jersey.
noun:  A census-designated place in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia.

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