What does NEWTON mean?

Definitions for NEWTON
ˈnut n, ˈnyut nnew·ton

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Newton, Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newtonnoun

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

  2. newton, Nnoun

    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

Wiktionary

  1. newtonnoun

    In the International System of Units, the derived unit of force; the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram by one metre per second per second. Symbol: N.

  2. Newtonnoun

    The name of many English places.

  3. Newtonnoun

    An English habitational surname for someone from any of these places

  4. Newtonnoun

    The name of many English-speaking places, including: several villages in England. a residential area in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland. A small city, the county seat of Baker County, Georgia, United States. A city, the county seat of Jasper County, Illinois, United States. A city, the county seat of Jasper County, Iowa, United States. A city, the county seat of Harvey County, Kansas, United States. A city, the county seat of Catawba County, North Carolina, United States. A city, the county seat of Newton County, Texas, United States.

  5. Newtonnoun

    A habitational surname for someone from any of these places.

  6. Newtonnoun

    Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher.

  7. Etymology: Old English new town. Compare same construction in Italian Napoli ("Naples").

ChatGPT

  1. newton

    A Newton is a unit of force in the International System of Units (SI), named after Sir Isaac Newton in recognition of his work on mechanics. It is defined as the amount of force needed to accelerate a one kilogram mass by one meter per second squared.

Wikidata

  1. Newton

    The newton is the International System of Units derived unit of force. It is named after Isaac Newton in recognition of his work on classical mechanics, specifically Newton's second law of motion.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. NEWTON

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Newton is ranked #443 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Newton surname appeared 74,092 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 25 would have the surname Newton.

    75.6% or 56,058 total occurrences were White.
    18.4% or 13,648 total occurrences were Black.
    2.5% or 1,897 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2% or 1,519 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.6% or 504 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.6% or 459 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of NEWTON in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of NEWTON in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of NEWTON in a Sentence

  1. Horace Walpole:

    The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

  2. American Tom Watson:

    That Sunday morning of the playoff against Jack Newton I was leaving the house, and it's raining, it's cold, and here comes a little Scottish girl, comes up to the front door and said' Mr American Tom Watson, please take this for good luck,' i could barely understand her, but I finally figured it out. She gave me a little thing of tin foil, and in it was some white heather, I kept that in my bag for years for good luck, and it brought me good luck.

  3. The Newton Police Department report:

    NEWTON COPS ARE RACIST F12 was written in black paint upon a white brick side of 55 Boylston St..

  4. Joey:

    If Issac Newton didn’t invent gravity we would all be floating

  5. John Newton:

    There's an old adage in the dairy industry that only five people in the world know how milk is priced in the John Newton, and four of them are dead, milk pricing is very, very complex.

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