Newton most commonly refers to:
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a " natural philosopher"), widely recognised as one of the grea ...
(1642–1726/1727), English scientist
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Newton (unit), SI unit of force named after Isaac Newton
Newton may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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''Newton'' (film), a 2017 Indian film
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Newton (band), Spanish electronic music group
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''Newton'' (Blake), a print by William Blake
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''Newton'' (Paolozzi), a 1995 bronze sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi
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Cecil Newton (''Coronation Street''), a character in the British soap opera ''Coronation Street''
* Curtis Newton, "real" name of pulp magazine character
Captain Future
* George Newton, a character in the film series ''
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...
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Newton Gearloose, a Disney character, nephew of Gyro Gearloose
* Newton, a character in ''
The Mighty Hercules
''The Mighty Hercules'' is an animated television series based loosely on the Greek mythology character of Heracles, under his Roman name Hercules. It debuted on television in 1963. The show ran until 1966, coinciding with the sword-and-sandal ge ...
'' animated series
People
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Newton (surname), including a list of people with the surname
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Newton (given name), including a list of people with the given name
Places
Australia
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Newton, South Australia
Newton is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, situated in the Adelaide foothills northeast of the city centre. The area features a significant population of people of Italian origin. Part of the City of Campbelltown, Newton is surrounded b ...
Canada
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Newton, Edmonton, Alberta
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Newton, Surrey
Newton is a town centre of the city in Surrey, British Columbia. It is the location for the previous Surrey City Hall and Courthouse, a local Surrey Public Library branch, and a Kwantlen Polytechnic University campus. The studios of radio stati ...
, British Columbia
New Zealand
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Newton, New Zealand
Newton is a small suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, under the local governance of the Auckland Council. It had a population of 1,641 in the 2013 census.
Since the construction of the Central Motorway Junction in 1965–75, Newton has been divid ...
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Newton (New Zealand electorate)
Newton was a 19th-century parliamentary electorate in Auckland, New Zealand. It existed from 1861 to 1893 and was represented by seven Members of Parliament.
History
Newton existed from 1861 to 1893. It was created for the 3rd New Zealand Parli ...
, a 19th-century parliamentary constituency in Auckland
Singapore
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Newton, Singapore
Newton is a town that is located within the Central Area of the Central Region of Singapore. The planning area is bounded by the following planning areas - Orchard and Museum to the south, Tanglin to the west, Novena to the north, Kallang to ...
United Kingdom
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List of places called Newton in the United Kingdom
United States
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Newton, Alabama
Newton is a town in Dale County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census its population was 1,511. Once the county seat of Dale County, Newton lost this distinction to nearby Ozark in 1870, and is now a small farming community. It incorporated ...
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Newton County, Arkansas
Newton County is a county in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,330. The county seat is Jasper. Newton County is Arkansas's 46th county, formed on December 14, 1842, and named for Thomas W. Newton, an Ark ...
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Newton, Georgia
Newton is a city in Baker County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 602. The city is the county seat of Baker County.
History
Newton was founded in 1837. That same year, the seat of Baker County was transfer ...
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Newton County, Georgia
Newton County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 112,483. The county seat is Covington.
Newton County is included in the ''Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, ...
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Newton, Illinois
Newton is a city in and the county seat of Jasper County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,849 at the 2010 census, down from 3,069 at the 2000 census. Newton is home to a large coal-fired power plant operated by Illinois Power Gen ...
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Newton, Indiana
Newton is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Newton County, in the U.S. state of Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 5 ...
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Newton County, Indiana
Newton County is a county located near the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population was 14,244. This county is part of Northwest Indiana as well as the Chicago metropolitan area. The county seat is Kent ...
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Newton, Wabash County, Indiana
Newton is an unincorporated community in Pleasant Township, Wabash County, in the U.S. state of Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 ...
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Newton, Iowa
Newton is the county seat of, and most populous city in, Jasper County, Iowa, United States. Located east of Des Moines, Newton is in Central Iowa. As of the 2020 Census, the city population was 15,760. It is the home of Iowa Speedway, Maytag Da ...
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Newton, Kansas
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Newton, Massachusetts
Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is approximately west of downtown Boston. Newton resembles a patchwork of thirteen villages, without a city center. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the population of Ne ...
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Newton, Mississippi
Newton is a city in Newton County, Mississippi. The population was 3,195 in the 2020 census.
Geography
Newton is located south of I-20 and U.S. Route 80 approximately 25 miles west of Meridian in south central Newton County. Potterchitto Creek f ...
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Newton County, Mississippi
Newton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 21,720. Its county seat is Decatur.
History
Newton County was formed in 1836 and named after scientist Isaac Newton.
The Battle of ...
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Newton County, Missouri
Newton County is a county located in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 58,114. Its county seat is Neosho. The county was organized in 1838 and is named in honor of John Newton, a her ...
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Newton, New Hampshire
Newton is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,820 at the 2020 census.
History
The sixth town to be granted from the Masonian land purchase of 1746, Newton was originally part of Salisbury, Massachu ...
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Newton, New Jersey
Newton, officially the ''Town of Newton'', is an incorporated municipality located in Sussex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is situated approximately by road northwest of New York City. As the location of the county's administrat ...
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Newton, North Carolina
Newton is a city in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 12,968. It is the county seat of Catawba County. Newton is part of the Hickory– Lenoir– Morganton Metropolitan Statistical ...
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Newton, Texas
Newton is a city in and the county seat of Newton County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,633 at the 2020 census.
History
Both Newton County and its county seat, Newton, were named after John Newton, a supposed hero of the American ...
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Newton County, Texas
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Newton, Utah
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Newton, Washington
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Newton, Wisconsin (disambiguation) Newton is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Wisconsin:
*Newton, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, a town
** Newton (community), Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
**Newtonburg, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
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Newton Township (disambiguation) Newton Township may refer to:
Arkansas
* Newton Township Faulkner County, Arkansas, in Faulkner County, Arkansas
Illinois
* Newton Township, Whiteside County, Illinois
Indiana
* Newton Township, Jasper County, Indiana
Iowa
* Newton Tow ...
Science and technology
Astronomy
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8000 Isaac Newton, a minor planet
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Newton (lunar crater)
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Newton (Martian crater)
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XMM-Newton
''XMM-Newton'', also known as the High Throughput X-ray Spectroscopy Mission and the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission, is an X-ray space observatory launched by the European Space Agency in December 1999 on an Ariane 5 rocket. It is the second cornerst ...
, an orbiting X-ray observatory
Computing
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Apple Newton
The Newton is a series of personal digital assistants (PDAs) developed and marketed by Apple Computer, Inc. An early device in the PDA category (the Newton originated the term), it was the first to feature handwriting recognition. Apple started ...
, a series of personal digital assistants by Apple Computer, Inc.
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Newton OS
''Newton OS'' is a discontinued operating system for the Apple Newton PDAs produced by Apple Computer, Inc. between 1993 and 1997. It was written entirely in C++ and trimmed to be low power consuming and use the available memory efficiently. Man ...
, an operating system for the Apple Newton
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Newton (app), an email management application developed by CloudMagic, Inc.
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Newton Game Dynamics
Newton Game Dynamics is an open-source physics engine for realistically simulating rigid bodies in games and other real-time applications. Its solver is deterministic and not based on traditional LCP or iterative methods.
Newton Game Dynamic ...
, a free physics engine for simulating rigid bodies in games
Other uses in science
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Newton scale
The Newton scale is a temperature scale devised by Isaac Newton in 1701.
He called his device a "thermometer", but he did not use the term "temperature", speaking of "degrees of heat" (''gradus caloris'') instead.
Newton's publication represents ...
, temperature scale devised by Isaac Newton
Other uses
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Hurricane Newton, various tropical cyclones
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Newton Station (disambiguation)
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Newton Vineyard
Newton Vineyard is a wine estate outside the city of St. Helena in California's Napa Valley
Napa Valley is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) located in Napa County in California's Wine Country. It was established by the Bureau of Alcoho ...
, a wine estate in California, United States
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Newtons (cookie), most prominently Fig Newtons, a Nabisco version of the fig roll
See also
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New Town (disambiguation)
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Newtown (disambiguation)
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Newtonville (disambiguation)
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The Newton Letter'' by John Banville, first published in 1982
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