"newton" in the noun sense
1. Newton, Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton
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, N
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
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