Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Newton"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Newton
n 1: English mathematician and physicist; remembered for
developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation
and his three laws of motion (1642-1727) [syn: {Newton},
{Isaac Newton}, {Sir Isaac Newton}]
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 [syn: {N}]
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