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English noun: Newton | |||
| 1. | Newton (person) English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727) | ||
| Synonyms | Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton | ||
| Instance hypernym | mathematician, physicist | ||
| 2. | newton (quantity) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | N | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | force unit | ||
| Part holonym | dyne | ||
| Part meronym | sthene | ||
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