[noot-n, nyoot-n] Pronunciation Key | the SI unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one meter per second per second on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: N |
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[noot-n, nyoot-n] Pronunciation Key | 1. | Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation. |
| 2. | a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston. 83,622. |
| 3. | a city in central Kansas. 16,332. |
| 4. | a city in central Iowa, E of Des Moines. 15,292. |
| 5. | a male given name: a family name taken from a place-name meaning “new town.” |
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| new·ton
(nōōt'n, nyōōt'n) Pronunciation Key
n. 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. [After Sir Isaac Newton.] |
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| New·ton
(nōōt'n, nyōōt'n) Pronunciation Key
A city of eastern Massachusetts, a mainly residential suburb of Boston, comprised of fourteen villages. Population: 83,200. |
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| Newton, 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. New·to'ni·an adj. |
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| newton | |
noun | |
| 1. | English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727) |
| 2. | a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to 100,000 dynes |
newton
(n t'n) Pronunciation Key
The SI derived unit used to measure force. One newton is equal to the force needed to accelerate a mass of one kilogram one meter per second per second. See also joule.
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| Newton, Sir Isaac 1642-1727.
English mathematician and scientist. He invented a form of calculus and formulated principles of physics that remained basically unchallenged until the work of Albert Einstein, including the law of universal gravitation, a theory of the nature of light, and three laws of motion. His treatise on gravitation, presented in Principia Mathematica (1687), was in his own account inspired by the sight of a falling apple.
Our Living Language : The British mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton stands as one of the greatest scientists of all time. Newton spent most of his working life at Cambridge University. In 1665, the year he received his bachelor's degree, an outbreak of the bubonic plague caused Cambridge to close for two years. Newton returned to his family home in Lincolnshire and, working alone, did some of his most important scientific work. Perhaps his greatest achievement was to demonstrate that scientific principles have universal applications. His universal law of gravitation states that there is an attractive force acting between all bodies in the universe. According to the famous—and possibly true—story, he observed an apple falling from a tree and, remarkably, connected the force drawing the apple to the ground with that keeping the Moon in its orbit. Along with his law of gravitation, Newton's three laws of motion, which laid the basis for the science of mechanics, bridged the gap between scientific thinking about terrestrial and celestial dynamics. The laws are: (1) A body at rest or moving in a straight line will continue to do so unless acted upon by an external force; (2) The acceleration of a moving object is proportional to and in the same direction as the force acting on it and inversely proportional to the object's mass; and (3) For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. For nearly 400 years these laws have remained unchallenged; even Einstein's Theory of Relativity is consistent with them. Newton stated his laws of motion in his 1687 masterpiece, the Principia Mathematica, in which he also introduced his formulation of the calculus (what we now call simply "calculus," a different version of which was simultaneously developed by Leibnitz). In optics, Newton demonstrated that white light contains all the colors of the spectrum and provided strong evidence that light was composed of particles. |
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newton new·ton (n&oomacr;t'n, ny&oomacr;t'n)
n.
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.
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Newton
1. (Named after Isaac Newton (1642-1727)). Rapin et al, Swiss Federal Inst Tech, Lausanne 1981. General purpose expression language, syntactically ALGOL-like, with object-oriented and functional features and a rich set of primitives for concurrency. Used for undergraduate teaching at Lausanne (EPFL).
Versions: Newton 2.6 for VAX/VMS and Newton 1.2 for DEC-Alpha/OSF-1.
E-mail: J. Hulaas
["Procedural Objects in Newton", Ch. Rapin, SIGPLAN Notices 24(9) (Sep 1989)].
["The Newton Language", Ch. Rapin et al, SIGPLAN Notices 16(8):31-40 (Aug 1981)].
["Programming in Newton", Wuetrich and Menu, EPFL 1982].
2. Apple Newton.
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Newton Center, MA Zip code(s): 02159
Newton Highlands, MA Zip code(s): 02161
Newton Grove, NC (town, FIPS 47020) Location: 35.25222 N, 78.35594 W
Population (1990): 511 (214 housing units)
Area: 7.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 28366
Newton Falls, OH (city, FIPS 55650) Location: 41.18892 N, 80.96983 W
Population (1990): 4866 (2137 housing units)
Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 44444
Newton Falls, NY Zip code(s): 13666
Newton County, MS (county, FIPS 101) Location: 32.40511 N, 89.11825 W
Population (1990): 20291 (8095 housing units)
Area: 1497.2 sq km (land), 4.0 sq km (water)
Newton County, AR (county, FIPS 101) Location: 35.91774 N, 93.22309 W
Population (1990): 7666 (3439 housing units)
Area: 2131.6 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)
Newton Hamilton, PA (borough, FIPS 54160) Location: 40.39275 N, 77.83536 W
Population (1990): 287 (114 housing units)
Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Newton County, GA (county, FIPS 217) Location: 33.55318 N, 83.84438 W
Population (1990): 41808 (15494 housing units)
Area: 716.0 sq km (land), 7.1 sq km (water)
Newton County, IN (county, FIPS 111) Location: 40.95134 N, 87.40216 W
Population (1990): 13551 (5276 housing units)
Area: 1040.9 sq km (land), 4.4 sq km (water)
Newton County, MO (county, FIPS 145) Location: 36.90724 N, 94.33155 W
Population (1990): 44445 (18384 housing units)
Area: 1622.6 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)
Newton County, TX (county, FIPS 351) Location: 30.78210 N, 93.74680 W
Population (1990): 13569 (6378 housing units)
Area: 2415.8 sq km (land), 17.7 sq km (water)
Newton Upper Fal, MA Zip code(s): 02164
Newton, WI Zip code(s): 53063
Newton, TX (city, FIPS 51372) Location: 30.85050 N, 93.75277 W
Population (1990): 1885 (831 housing units)
Area: 14.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 75966
Newton, NH Zip code(s): 03858
Newton, NC (city, FIPS 47000) Location: 35.66545 N, 81.21870 W
Population (1990): 9304 (3986 housing units)
Area: 21.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 28658
Newton, MS (city, FIPS 51720) Location: 32.31973 N, 89.15890 W
Population (1990): 3701 (1505 housing units)
Area: 12.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 39345
Newton, GA (city, FIPS 55244) Location: 31.31637 N, 84.33669 W
Population (1990): 703 (301 housing units)
Area: 7.5 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 31770
Newton, KS (city, FIPS 50475) Location: 38.04439 N, 97.34191 W
Population (1990): 16700 (6955 housing units)
Area: 20.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 67114
Newton, IL (city, FIPS 52844) Location: 38.98807 N, 88.16334 W
Population (1990): 3154 (1456 housing units)
Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 62448
Newton, IA (city, FIPS 56505) Location: 41.69510 N, 93.04510 W
Population (1990): 14789 (6477 housing units)
Area: 23.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 50208
Newton, AL (town, FIPS 54480) Location: 31.33913 N, 85.58858 W
Population (1990): 1580 (632 housing units)
Area: 35.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 36352
Newton, UT (town, FIPS 54550) Location: 41.86124 N, 111.98915 W
Population (1990): 659 (189 housing units)
Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Newton, MA (city, FIPS 45560) Location: 42.33157 N, 71.20708 W
Population (1990): 82585 (30497 housing units)
Area: 46.8 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
Newton, NJ (town, FIPS 51930) Location: 41.05485 N, 74.75382 W
Population (1990): 7521 (3115 housing units)
Area: 8.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
North Newton, KS (city, FIPS 51225) Location: 38.07385 N, 97.34604 W
Population (1990): 1262 (468 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 67117
West Newton, PA (borough, FIPS 83680) Location: 40.20837 N, 79.76958 W
Population (1990): 3152 (1453 housing units)
Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 15089
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