English words for 'Newtonian'
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adj
adj
- Of or relating to Isaac Newton, or his laws and theories.
- of or relating to or inspired by Sir Isaac Newton or his science
- (astronomy) Being or relating to a type of reflecting telescope using a concave primary mirror and a flat diagonal secondary mirror.
- (physics) Of or relating to classical physics that does not take relativity into account.
- (fluid mechanics, of a fluid) Obeying Newton's law of viscosity; i.e. having a constant viscosity.
noun
name
- Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher.
- An eastern suburb of Porthcawl, Bridgend borough county borough (OS grid ref SS8377).
- A suburb of Chester, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4168). Not to be confused with Newtown, Chester.
- A suburban area near Hyde, Tameside borough, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SJ9596).
- A village and civil parish (served by Newton-in-Bowland Parish Council) in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD6950).
- A city, the county seat of Harvey County, Kansas, named after Newton, Massachusetts.
- A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Campbelltown, South Australia.
- A town and unincorporated community therein, in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
- A small village in Newton and Little Oakley parish, North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, previously in Kettering district (OS grid ref SP8883).
- A village in Dalton Town with Newton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Barrow-in-Furness borough (OS grid ref SD2371).
- A village in Sturminster Newton parish, Dorset (OS grid ref ST7813; Sturminster Newton was originally Sturminster).
- A habitational surname for someone from any of these places.
- A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
- A suburb in Mumbles community, City and County of Swansea (OS grid ref SS6088).
- A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
- A small city in Cache County, Utah.
- A number of townships, listed under Newton Township.
- A village in Dumfriesshire, Dumfries and Galloway council area, otherwise known as Newton Wamphray (OS grid ref NY1194).
- A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK6841).
- A hamlet in Tattenhall and District parish, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, previously in Newton by Tattenhall parish (OS grid ref SJ5059).
- A hamlet in Walford, Letton and Newton parish, north Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO3769).
- An unincorporated community in Pleasant Township, Wabash County, Indiana.
- A city, the county seat of Jasper County, Iowa.
- An inner suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
- A small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4349).
- A hamlet east of Collessie, Fife council area, also known as Newton of Collessie (OS grid ref NO2913).
- An unincorporated community in the town of Harmony, Vernon County, Wisconsin.
- A residential area in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire council area (OS grid ref NS6660).
- A city, the county seat of Catawba County, North Carolina.
- A hamlet and civil parish (served by Vowchurch and District Parish Council) in south-west Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO3432).
- A small village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TL9140).
- A city, the county seat of Jasper County, Illinois.
- A neighbourhood in north-east Edmonton, Alberta.
- A small city, the county seat of Baker County, Georgia.
- A small city in Dale County, Alabama.
- A town in the Central Region of Singapore.
- An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia.
- A small city in Newton County, Mississippi.
- A village in Blackwell parish, Bolsover district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4459).
- A village in Bywell parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NZ0364).
- An unincorporated community in Grays Harbor County, Washington.
- A hamlet and civil parish in north Herefordshire, served by Hope under Dinmore and Newton Parish Council (OS grid ref SO5053).
- A town, the county seat of Sussex County, New Jersey.
- A city, the county seat of Newton County, Texas.
- A village in Newton and Biggin parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP5378).
- A town centre in the city of Surrey, Regional District of Metro Vancouver, British Columbia.
- A town in Marquette County, Wisconsin.
noun
- (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine
- a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
- nucleotide derived from guanine with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group
- a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
- (slang) Abbreviation of gangster; often used to address one's friend.
- (US, politics) Green.
- (nautical, historical) Initialism of grog: marked in the ship's books when a sailor took the daily rum ration.
- Alternative letter-case form of g (unit of gravitational acceleration).
- (grammar) Abbreviation of genitive case.
- (drug slang) Abbreviation of gamma-hydroxybutyrate or gamma-butyrolactone.
- Ground floor (of a building).
- (sports) Abbreviation of goals, a sports statistic.
- (economics) Abbreviation of government spending.
- Gravity.
- (sports, baseball) Games (the statistic reporting the number of games that a player has participated in).
- A galaxy.
- (chiefly US) Abbreviation of grand (“thousand (dollars, pounds etc.)”).
- (US, of a movie) General (suitable for a general audience).
- (UK, education) The academic grade that comes next below F.
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adj
- (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
- Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
- Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- (music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- (informal, music) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
- (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture
- of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome
- of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas
- of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors
- well-known and long-established in form or style
- of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.
noun
name
noun
noun
- (classical mechanics) A theoretical point with mass assigned to it.
- (statistics) A probability distribution with unity probability mass at one specific outcome, and zero probability mass everywhere else.
- the concept of either matter that is infinitely small, or an object which can be thought of as infinitely small.
noun
- (informal, non-scientific) Ellipsis of pound-force.
- Ellipsis of pound force.
- Ellipsis of pound weight.
- (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A hard blow.
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- (informal) Various non-English units of currency not officially called pounds.
- Ellipsis of pound mass.
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
- Various non-English units of measure.
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- (US) The symbol #.
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- 16 ounces avoirdupois
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
verb
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
- move rhythmically
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
- place or shut up in a pound
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
- move heavily or clumsily
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact
- partition off into compartments
adj
- (physics) Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
- The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
- Unvaried in volume.
- Unvaried in frequency.
- Straightforward; direct; clear.
- (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
- In the same position or rank.
- Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
- At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
- Calm.
- being on a precise horizontal plane
- oriented at right angles to the plumb
- of the score in a contest
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- not showing abrupt variations
noun
- A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
- (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
- (British) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
- (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
- A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
- (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
- Degree or amount.
- (statistics) One of the specific values which may be taken by a categorical variable.
- Achievement or qualification.
- A floor of a multi-storey building.
- (roleplaying games, video games) A numeric value given to a character (or other element of a game) that represents its relative power, challenge or eligibility to do things, used as a game mechanic to govern progression through a game.
- indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- height above ground
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
verb
- (transitive) To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
- (transitive, figurative) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
- (intransitive) To speak honestly and openly [with with ‘someone’] (see: level with).
- (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To progress to the next level.
- (transitive) To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
- (transitive) To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone) [with on or against or at].
- (transitive) To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
- (intransitive, sports) To make the score of a game equal.
- (transitive) To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
- direct into a position for use
- talk frankly with; lay it on the line
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- aim at
- make level or straight
- become level or even
adj
- Of or relating to Isaac Newton, or his laws and theories.
- of or relating to or inspired by Sir Isaac Newton or his science
- (astronomy) Being or relating to a type of reflecting telescope using a concave primary mirror and a flat diagonal secondary mirror.
- (physics) Of or relating to classical physics that does not take relativity into account.
- (fluid mechanics, of a fluid) Obeying Newton's law of viscosity; i.e. having a constant viscosity.
noun
noun
- (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine
- a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
- nucleotide derived from guanine with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group
- a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
- (slang) Abbreviation of gangster; often used to address one's friend.
- (US, politics) Green.
- (nautical, historical) Initialism of grog: marked in the ship's books when a sailor took the daily rum ration.
- Alternative letter-case form of g (unit of gravitational acceleration).
- (grammar) Abbreviation of genitive case.
- (drug slang) Abbreviation of gamma-hydroxybutyrate or gamma-butyrolactone.
- Ground floor (of a building).
- (sports) Abbreviation of goals, a sports statistic.
- (economics) Abbreviation of government spending.
- Gravity.
- (sports, baseball) Games (the statistic reporting the number of games that a player has participated in).
- A galaxy.
- (chiefly US) Abbreviation of grand (“thousand (dollars, pounds etc.)”).
- (US, of a movie) General (suitable for a general audience).
- (UK, education) The academic grade that comes next below F.
character
num
noun
- (classical mechanics) A theoretical point with mass assigned to it.
- (statistics) A probability distribution with unity probability mass at one specific outcome, and zero probability mass everywhere else.
- the concept of either matter that is infinitely small, or an object which can be thought of as infinitely small.
noun
- (informal, non-scientific) Ellipsis of pound-force.
- Ellipsis of pound force.
- Ellipsis of pound weight.
- (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A hard blow.
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- (informal) Various non-English units of currency not officially called pounds.
- Ellipsis of pound mass.
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
- Various non-English units of measure.
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- (US) The symbol #.
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- 16 ounces avoirdupois
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
verb
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
- move rhythmically
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
- place or shut up in a pound
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
- move heavily or clumsily
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact
- partition off into compartments
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adj
adj
- Of or relating to Isaac Newton, or his laws and theories.
- of or relating to or inspired by Sir Isaac Newton or his science
- (astronomy) Being or relating to a type of reflecting telescope using a concave primary mirror and a flat diagonal secondary mirror.
- (physics) Of or relating to classical physics that does not take relativity into account.
- (fluid mechanics, of a fluid) Obeying Newton's law of viscosity; i.e. having a constant viscosity.
noun
adj
- (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
- Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
- Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- (music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- (informal, music) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
- (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture
- of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome
- of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas
- of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors
- well-known and long-established in form or style
- of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.
noun
adj
- (physics) Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
- The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
- Unvaried in volume.
- Unvaried in frequency.
- Straightforward; direct; clear.
- (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
- In the same position or rank.
- Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
- At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
- Calm.
- being on a precise horizontal plane
- oriented at right angles to the plumb
- of the score in a contest
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- not showing abrupt variations
noun
- A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
- (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
- (British) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
- (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
- A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
- (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
- Degree or amount.
- (statistics) One of the specific values which may be taken by a categorical variable.
- Achievement or qualification.
- A floor of a multi-storey building.
- (roleplaying games, video games) A numeric value given to a character (or other element of a game) that represents its relative power, challenge or eligibility to do things, used as a game mechanic to govern progression through a game.
- indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- height above ground
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
verb
- (transitive) To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
- (transitive, figurative) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
- (intransitive) To speak honestly and openly [with with ‘someone’] (see: level with).
- (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To progress to the next level.
- (transitive) To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
- (transitive) To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone) [with on or against or at].
- (transitive) To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
- (intransitive, sports) To make the score of a game equal.
- (transitive) To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
- direct into a position for use
- talk frankly with; lay it on the line
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- aim at
- make level or straight
- become level or even