Eddington or Edington may refer to:
People
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Eddington Varmah, Liberian politician
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Eddington (surname), people with the surname
Places
Australia
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Eddington, Victoria
Eddington is a small town on the Loddon River in Central Victoria, Australia. It is approximately north-west of Maldon, SE of Dunolly, ENE of Maryborough and south-west of Bendigo. It is approximately north-west from Melbourne.
There is ...
United Kingdom
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Eddington, Berkshire
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Eddington, Cambridge
The North West Cambridge Development is a University of Cambridge site to the north west of Cambridge city centre in England. The development is meant to alleviate overcrowding and rising land prices in Cambridge. The first phase resulted from ...
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Eddington, Kent
Eddington was a village in Kent, South East England to the south-east of Herne Bay, to the west of Beltinge and to the north of Herne. It is now a suburb of Herne Bay, in Greenhill and Eddington Ward, one of the five wards of Herne Bay. Its ...
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Edington, Somerset
Edington is a rural village, situated on the north side of the Polden Hills in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England.
Either side of it lie the villages of Chilton Polden and Catcott, and north of it is the small village of Burtle. Ther ...
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Edington, Wiltshire
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Edington Priory
United States
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Eddington, Maine
Eddington is a town located on the eastern side of the Penobscot River in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 2,194.
History
The town was founded by and named after Jonathan Eddy, a mi ...
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Eddington, Pennsylvania
Eddington is a census-designated place located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community was part of Cornwells Heights-Eddington, which was split into two separate CDPs. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,906. The co ...
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Eddington (SEPTA station)
Other uses
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Battle of Edington, decisive victory by Alfred the Great
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Eddington (horse)
Eddington (foaled in 2001) is a millionaire American Thoroughbred racehorse and successful sire bred in Kentucky by Carl Rosen and Associates and raced under the Willmott Stables banner ('' nom de course'' for Peter Willmott). He finished racing ...
, American thoroughbred racehorse
Named after Sir Arthur Eddington
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Eddington (crater)
Eddington is the lava-flooded remnant of a lunar impact crater, located on the western part of Oceanus Procellarum. The western rim is attached to the wall of the walled plain Struve. To the east-southeast is the smaller but prominent crater Sele ...
, on the Moon
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Eddington (spacecraft) The Eddington mission was a European Space Agency (ESA) project that planned to search for Earth-like planets, but was cancelled in 2003. It was named for the noted astronomer Arthur Eddington, who formulated much of the modern theory of stellar a ...
, a cancelled ESA mission to search for extrasolar planets
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Eddington luminosity
The Eddington luminosity, also referred to as the Eddington limit, is the maximum luminosity a body (such as a star) can achieve when there is balance between the force of radiation acting outward and the gravitational force acting inward. The sta ...
or Eddington limit, relating to the maximum mass of a star
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Eddington Medal
The Eddington Medal is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics. It is named after Sir Arthur Eddington. First awarded in 1953, the frequency of the prize has varied over the year ...
, awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society
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Eddington number, the number of protons in the observable universe
* Eddington–Dirac number, alternative name for the
Dirac large numbers hypothesis
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Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates In general relativity, Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates are a pair of coordinate systems for a Schwarzschild geometry (e.g. a spherically symmetric black hole) which are adapted to radial null geodesics. Null geodesics are the worldlines of p ...
, in the theory of general relativity
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