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Rumford

American  
[ruhm-ferd] / ˈrʌm fərd /

noun

  1. Count. Benjamin Thompson.


Rumford British  
/ ˈrʌmfəd /

noun

  1. See Thompson

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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To test this idea, Rumford placed the cannon barrels in water and timed how long it took for the water to boil.

From Science Daily Dec. 23, 2025

There are probably few people still around who know much about the Rumford Fair Housing Act, which produced arguably the biggest, bitterest brawl ever in California’s Capitol.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2023

In Rumford, a blue-collar Maine town of 6,000 people, where snow-dusted hills frame the Androscoggin River and white plumes rise from a century-old paper mill, average high temperatures in March hover just above 40 degrees.

From New York Times Mar. 11, 2023

Producers will also film in several city locations doubling as 1990s East London, including the gardens of St Nicholas Church and Tower Gardens, Rumford Street and Anfield, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.

From BBC Nov. 3, 2022

Convection as a process was first deduced by the eccentric Count von Rumford at the end of the eighteenth century.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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