NEWTON as NOUN

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)
   Synonym(s)
   • Isaac Newton (what does Isaac Newton mean?)
   • Sir Isaac Newton (what does Sir Isaac Newton mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Newton is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • mathematician (what does mathematician mean?)
   • physicist (what does physicist mean?)
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
   Synonym(s)
   • N (what does N mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) newton is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • force unit (what does force unit mean?)