Word.ws English Dictionary

Rutherfordian

Rutherfordian adjective: of, pertaining to, or in the style of any of various persons and institutions named Rutherford.

Adjective

Rutherfordian (comparative more Rutherfordian, superlative most Rutherfordian)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of any of various persons and institutions named Rutherford.
  2. (specifically) Of or pertaining to Ernest Rutherford, his planetary model of the atom (called the Rutherford model), or predictions made on the basis of this model.

Forms of Rutherfordian

comparativemore Rutherfordian
superlativemost Rutherfordian

Origin of Rutherfordian

From Rutherford + -ian.

Questions about Rutherfordian

What does Rutherfordian mean?
Rutherfordian means of, pertaining to, or in the style of any of various persons and institutions named Rutherford.
What part of speech is Rutherfordian?
Rutherfordian is an adjective.

Words near Rutherfordian in the dictionary

  1. Rutherford County
  2. Rutherford model
  3. Rutherford scattering
  4. Rutherford scatterings
  5. Rutherford-Bohr model
  6. Rutherfordian
  7. rutherfordine
  8. rutherfordium
  9. rutherfords
  10. Rutherfordton
  11. Rutherglen

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Rutherfordian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Rutherfordian.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rutherfordian. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.