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newton

The definition of a newton is a unit of force in the International System of Units, or a man's name, or the name of an English mathematician, Sir Isaac Newton.

(noun)

An example of a newton is a unit used in the law of motion.
An example of Newton is the man who first described gravity, Sir Isaac Newton.

See newton in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the basic unit of force in the SI and MKS systems, equal to the force which imparts to a mass of one kilogram an acceleration of one meter per second per second: abbrev. N

Origin: after Sir Isaac Newton

noun

a masculine name: dim. Newt

Origin: after surname Newton < common Eng place name Newton < OE neowa tun, new town

Newton, Sir Isaac 1642-1727; Eng. mathematician & natural philosopher: formulated the laws of gravity & motion & the elements of differential calculus

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Newtonian adjective, noun

city in E Mass.: suburb of Boston: pop. 84,000

Origin: after New Towne, orig. name of Cambridge, Mass.

See newton in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun Abbr. N

In the meter-kilogram-second system, the unit of force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram one meter per second per second, equal to 100,000 dynes. See Table at measurement.

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Origin: After Sir Isaac Newton

A city of eastern Massachusetts, a mainly residential suburb of Boston, comprised of fourteen villages. Population: 82,800.

, Sir Isaac 1642-1727.

English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal gravitation, a theory about the nature of light, and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation, presented in Principia Mathematica (1687), was supposedly inspired by the sight of a falling apple.

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