Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun newton

2 senses of newton

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))
       INSTANCE OF=> mathematician -- (a person skilled in mathematics)
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)

Sense 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)
       => force unit -- (a unit of measurement of physical force)