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)
The newton (symbol: N) is the unit of force in the International System of Units (SI). It is defined as 1 kg⋅m/s, the force which gives a mass of 1 kilogram an acceleration of 1 metre per second per second. It is named after Isaac Newton in ...
, 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)
Newton is a Spanish band, famous for their song "Streamline". It was composed of the members J.J. Verdu and José Vicente Molla. Their style was mákina, an electronic music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musi ...
, 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
Captain Future is a pulp science fiction hero — a space-traveling scientist and adventurer —originally published in his namesake pulp magazine from 1940 to 1944. The character was created by editors Mort Weisinger and Leo Margulies. The maj ...
* 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 classical ...
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Newton Gearloose
Gyro Gearloose is a cartoon character created in 1952 by Carl Barks for Disney comics. An anthropomorphic chicken, he is part of the Donald Duck universe, appearing in comic book stories as a friend of Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, and anyo ...
, 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)
The surname Newton is a toponymic surname, derived from the common place name "New-town". "As nearly every county has its ... Newton," there are many independent families that share this surname.
The Newton family motto is 'Faveat fortuna', meani ...
, including a list of people with the surname
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Newton (given name) Notable people with given name Newton include:
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* Newton (Billy Myers) (b. 1967), a British firefighter turned pop singer
* Newton D. Baker, an American lawyer and politician
* Newton Cloud (1804–1877), an American politician and Meth ...
, 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
Newton is a residential neighbourhood located in north east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is named for Reverend William Newton who arrived in Edmonton in 1875. The Anglican canon served the people of Edmonton until 1900. The Hermitage, a hospital ...
, 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 divi ...
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Newton (New Zealand electorate), a 19th-century parliamentary constituency in Auckland
Singapore
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Newton, Singapore
United Kingdom
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List of places called Newton in the United Kingdom
Places called Newton in the United Kingdom include:
England
* Newton Longville, Buckinghamshire
* Newton Blossomville, Buckinghamshire
* Newton, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire
* Newton-in-the-Isle, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire
* Newton, C ...
United States
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Newton, Alabama
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Newton County, Arkansas
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Newton, Georgia
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Newton County, Georgia
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Newton, Illinois
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Newton, Indiana
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Newton County, Indiana
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Newton, Wabash County, Indiana
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Newton, Iowa
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Newton, Kansas
Newton is a city in and the county seat of Harvey County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 18,602. Newton is located north of Wichita. The city of North Newton is located immediately north and e ...
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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
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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 administrati ...
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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 Ar ...
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Newton, Texas
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Newton County, Texas
Newton County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 12,217. Its county seat is Newton. The county is named for John Newton, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.
Newton County is ...
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Newton, Utah
Newton is a town in Cache County, Utah, United States. It was founded in 1869 by pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The population was 789 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Logan, Utah-Idaho Metropolitan Stat ...
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Newton, Washington Newton is an unincorporated community in Grays Harbor County, in the U.S. state of Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
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Newton, Wisconsin (disambiguation)
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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
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
In mathematics
8 is:
* a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2.
* a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the ...
, a minor planet
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Newton (lunar crater)
Newton is a lunar impact crater located near the south limb of the Moon. It is south-southwest of the crater Moretus. To the northeast is Short, and in the northwest are Casatus and Klaproth. Because of its location, the crater appears highly ...
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Newton (Martian crater)
Newton is a large crater on Mars, with a diameter close to 300 km. It is located south of the planet's equator in the heavily cratered highlands of Terra Sirenum in the Phaethontis quadrangle. The crater was named in 1973 by the International ...
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XMM-Newton, an orbiting X-ray observatory
Computing
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Apple Newton, 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)
Newton is an email management application for iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows and ChromeOS developed by CloudMagic, Inc. The application is known for its searching capabilities, cross-platform abilities and user interface. It has been referred to ...
, 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 The name Newton has been used for five tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
* Tropical Storm Newton (1980) – short-lived storm, had no impact on land
* Hurricane Newton (1986) – made landfall along both the western and eastern shore ...
, various tropical cyclones
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Newton Station (disambiguation) Newton Station may refer to:
* Newton station (Kansas), an Amtrak station in Newton, Kansas, USA
* Newton station (Mississippi), a historic train station in Newton, Mississippi, USA
*Newton railway station, a railway station located between the town ...
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Newton Vineyard
Newton Vineyard is a wine estate outside the city of St. Helena in California's Napa Valley.
Newton was founded in 1977 by English businessman Peter Newton and his Chinese wife Su Hua.
History
Founded in 1977 by English businessman Peter Newto ...
, a wine estate in California, United States
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Newtons (cookie)
Newtons are a Nabisco-trademarked version of a pastry filled with sweet fruit paste. "Fig Newtons" are the most popular variety (fig rolls filled with fig paste). They are produced by an extrusion process. Their distinctive shape is a characteri ...
, most prominently Fig Newtons, a Nabisco version of the fig roll
See also
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New Town (disambiguation)
A new town is a generic name for a planned community, or a planned expansion of a community.
New Town may also refer to:
Town planning
*New town (Alberta), a former municipal status in Alberta, Canada, from 1956
*New towns of Hong Kong, since ...
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Newtown (disambiguation) Newtown may refer to:
Places
Australia
*Newtown, New South Wales
*Newtown, Queensland (Ipswich)
*Newtown, Queensland (Toowoomba)
*Newtown, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong
*Newtown, Victoria (Golden Plains Shire), a locality near Ballarat
Canada
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Newtonville (disambiguation) Newtonville may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Newtonville, Ontario
United States
* Newtonville, Indiana
* Newtonville, Massachusetts, one of thirteen villages in Newton, Massachusetts
** Newtonville (MBTA station)
* Newtonville, New Jersey
* Newton ...
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The Newton Letter
''The Newton Letter'' is a 1982 novella by John Banville. Drawing comparisons with Ford Madox Ford's ''The Good Soldier'' and John Hawkes's '' The Blood Oranges'' for their use of the unreliable narrator, ''The Newton Letter'' was described in ...
'' by John Banville, first published in 1982
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