Origin of newton
after Sir Isaac Newton
An engraving of Sir Isaac Newton.
- 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.
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Newton
Origin of Newton
after surname Newton from common Eng place name Newton from Old English neowa tun, new townNewton
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Origin of Newton
after New Towne, origin, originally name of Cambridgeproper name, Mass.
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Abbr. NOrigin of newton
AfterSir Isaac Newton
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See also joule
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(plural newtons)
Named after the English scientist Sir Isaac Newton.
- The name of many English places.
- An English habitational surname for someone from any of these places
- Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher
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newton - Computer Definition

The unit of force that will impart an acceleration of one meter per second to a mass of one kilogram.The newton is named for Sir Isaac Newton (1642
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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(1) (newton) A unit of force in the MKS system. It is the force required to accelerate one kilogram by one meter per second squared.
(2) A set of mobile computing technologies from Apple introduced in 1993 with its MessagePad personal digital assistant (PDA). The ARM-based MessagePad included handwriting recognition, an infrared port for local data transfer and a fax/modem for e-mail and faxes. Although the MessagePad was the name of the device, it was commonly called the "Newton." The handwriting technology was often criticized for not being up to par; however, proponents of the device claimed it worked well if the user had the patience to train it properly. The Newton eMate In 1997, Apple offered the educational market a Newton-derived portable computer called the "eMate 300." Also using an ARM processor, the eMate had a full-size keyboard that was housed in a case similar in design to the iBook laptop, which was introduced two years later. A Five-Year Reign In 1998, Apple stopped production of Newton products due to competition from Palm PDAs, which were becoming popular. Apple folded the Newton, Inc. subsidiary back into the company after having spun it off a year earlier to specialize in the PDA niche. Some of the components of the Newton handwriting technology made their way into the Mac OS X operating system a few years later. See PDA and ARM chips.
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