NEWTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Newton mean? 

• NEWTON (noun)
  The noun NEWTON has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: NEWTON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Isaac Newton; Newton; Sir Isaac Newton

Instance hypernyms:

mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

Derivation:

Newtonian (of or relating to or inspired by Sir Isaac Newton or his science)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

N; newton

Hypernyms ("newton" is a kind of...):

force unit (a unit of measurement of physical force)

Meronyms (parts of "newton"):

dyne (a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram)

Holonyms ("newton" is a part of...):

sthene (a unit of force equal to 1000 newtons)

 Context examples 

One kilogram-force is equal to 9.80665 newtons.

(Kilogram-Force, NCI Thesaurus)

One gram-force is equal to 9.80665E-3 newtons.

(Gram-Force, NCI Thesaurus)

A derived unit defined as the work done or energy required to exert a force of one newton for a distance of one meter. 1 KJ = 2.390 X 10-4 Kilocalorie.

(Kilojoule, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A SI derived unit of pressure equivalent to 1000 newtons per square meter or 10000 bars or to 0.145 pound per square inch.

(Kilopascal, NCI Thesaurus)

A SI derived unit of pressure equivalent to one newton per square meter or 10 bars or to 1.45x10E-4 pounds per square inch.

(Pascal, NCI Thesaurus)

However, even now, the majority of spectrometers are based around principles similar to what Newton demonstrated with his prism: the spatial separation of light into different spectral components.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

While data from Chandra and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton telescopes hinted that the power source was a pulsar, intervening clouds of gas blocked the view, making it difficult to see.

(Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays, NASA)

One dyne is equal to 10E-5 newton and 2.248E-6 pound of force.

(Dyne, NCI Thesaurus)

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite found the pulsar and, independently, NASA's NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) mission also detected the signal.

(NuSTAR Helps Find Universe's Brightest Pulsars, NASA)

In a second stage, Maeder focused on Newton's law, a specific instance of the equations of general relativity.

(There May Be No Dark Matter, Dark Energy in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)