DICTIONARY ENTRY
3 SYLLABLES
rutherford
/'rʌθɝrfɝrd/
Rutherford has 3 syllables: ruth · er · ford.
ruth
01
er
02
ford
03
noun. British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819).
noun. British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937).
noun. A unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second.
ADVERTISEMENT
leaderboard · 728×90
ADVERTISEMENT
medium rectangle · 300×250
PEOPLE ALSO LOOK UP