Rutherford

Definitions

1. A Scottish habitational surname from Old English from a place where there was once a settlement in the Scottish borders.
2. 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.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
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4. A suburb of Newcastle in the Maitland council area, New South Wales, Australia.
5. A neighbourhood in south Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
6. A number of places in the United States:
7. A census-designated place in Napa County, California.
8. A borough in Bergen County, New Jersey.
9. A census-designated place in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
10. An unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia.
11. An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia.

Equivalents

Examples

“One of the things making the trip⟳ possible is Rutherford’s microlight aircraft. Microlights are small one or two-seat planes used for leisure or personal transport⟳. If she completes her trip⟳, Rutherford will also claim⟳ the record⟳ for the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo in a microlight aircraft.”

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