newton : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: newton	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for newton
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Newton n 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): Newton, Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton 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): newton, N
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Newton, AL (town, FIPS 54480) Location: 31.33913 N, 85.58858 W Population (1990): 1580 (632 housing units) Area: 35.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 36352 Newton, GA (city, FIPS 55244) Location: 31.31637 N, 84.33669 W Population (1990): 703 (301 housing units) Area: 7.5 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31770 Newton, IA (city, FIPS 56505) Location: 41.69510 N, 93.04510 W Population (1990): 14789 (6477 housing units) Area: 23.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50208 Newton, IL (city, FIPS 52844) Location: 38.98807 N, 88.16334 W Population (1990): 3154 (1456 housing units) Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62448 Newton, KS (city, FIPS 50475) Location: 38.04439 N, 97.34191 W Population (1990): 16700 (6955 housing units) Area: 20.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67114 Newton, MA (city, FIPS 45560) Location: 42.33157 N, 71.20708 W Population (1990): 82585 (30497 housing units) Area: 46.8 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) Newton, MS (city, FIPS 51720) Location: 32.31973 N, 89.15890 W Population (1990): 3701 (1505 housing units) Area: 12.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 39345 Newton, NC (city, FIPS 47000) Location: 35.66545 N, 81.21870 W Population (1990): 9304 (3986 housing units) Area: 21.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 28658 Newton, NH Zip code(s): 03858 Newton, NJ (town, FIPS 51930) Location: 41.05485 N, 74.75382 W Population (1990): 7521 (3115 housing units) Area: 8.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Newton, TX (city, FIPS 51372) Location: 30.85050 N, 93.75277 W Population (1990): 1885 (831 housing units) Area: 14.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75966 Newton, UT (town, FIPS 54550) Location: 41.86124 N, 111.98915 W Population (1990): 659 (189 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Newton, WI Zip code(s): 53063
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Newton 1. (Named after Isaac Newton (1642-1727)). Rapin et al, Swiss Federal Inst Tech, Lausanne 1981. General purpose expression language, syntactically ALGOL-like, with object-oriented and functional features and a rich set of primitives for concurrency. Used for undergraduate teaching at Lausanne (EPFL). Versions: Newton 2.6 for VAX/VMS and Newton 1.2 for DEC-Alpha/{OSF}-1. E-mail: J. Hulaas . {(ftp://ellc4.epfl.ch /pub/languages/Newton)}. ["Procedural Objects in Newton", Ch. Rapin, SIGPLAN Notices 24(9) (Sep 1989)]. ["The Newton Language", Ch. Rapin et al, SIGPLAN Notices 16(8):31-40 (Aug 1981)]. ["Programming in Newton", Wuetrich and Menu, EPFL 1982]. 2. {Apple Newton}. (2000-08-29)