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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Of, pertaining to, or in the style of any of various persons and institutions named Rutherford.
2. 2
   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. specifically

Etymology

From Rutherford + -ian.

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