Definition of Count Rumford

1. Noun. English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814).

Exact synonyms: Benjamin Thompson, Thompson
Generic synonyms: Physicist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Count Rumford

Council on Environmental Policy
Councilman's lesion
Councilman body
Councilmania
Counsel to the Crown
Count Alessandro Volta
Count Alessandro di Cagliostro
Count Branicki's mice
Count Branicki's mouse
Count Dracula
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Count Fleet
Count Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy
Count Maurice Maeterlinck
Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
Count Rumford (current term)
Counter-Reformation
Counter Reformation
Counterterrorist Center
Country Code
County Durham
Couperin
Courbet
Courier
Courland
Courlander
Courlanders
Cournand's dip
Court
Court of Saint James's

Literary usage of Count Rumford

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King: Comprising His Letters, Private by Rufus King (1895)
"Loring—Also one relative to Contraband of War— Impressment of Seamen and other Points in Dispute—Count Rumford to King—Military Suggestions—King to Secy, ..."

2. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1848)
"Reasons assigned by Count Rumford for leaving his Country. BY the kindness of Mr. Joseph B. Walker, a few interesting letters, written by Count ..."

3. The Life of Gouverneur Morris: With Selections from His Correspondence and by Jared Sparks (1832)
"Count Rumford.—MR MORRIS RE- TURNS TO ALTONA. DUKE OF ORLEANS. ... At Munich he was received with marked kindness by his countryman, Count Rumford, ..."

4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"HOW Count Rumford RECLAIMED THE BEGGARS OF BAVARIA. [Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical. 1796.] THE number of itinerant beggars, of both sexes ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"The merits of Count Rumford, too, have been so much a theme of ... HENRY LORD, 1804, Count Rumford on the Nature of Heat, Edinburgh Review, vol. 4, pp. ..."

6. The Library of Original Sources by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1907)
"Count Rumford SIR BENJAMIN THOMPSON was born in Woburn, Mass., in 1753. His family had lived in New England for a century. He seems to have been well cared ..."

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