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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4349).
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A suburb of Chester, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4168). Not to be confused with Newtown, Chester.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A hamlet in Tattenhall and District parish, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, previously in Newton by Tattenhall parish (OS grid ref SJ5059).
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A village in Dalton Town with Newton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Barrow-in-Furness borough (OS grid ref SD2371).
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A village in Blackwell parish, Bolsover district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4459).
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A village in Sturminster Newton parish, Dorset (OS grid ref ST7813; Sturminster Newton was originally Sturminster).
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A suburban area near Hyde, Tameside borough, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SJ9596).
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name
The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A hamlet and civil parish in north Herefordshire, served by Hope under Dinmore and Newton Parish Council (OS grid ref SO5053).
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A hamlet in Walford, Letton and Newton parish, north Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO3769).
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A hamlet and civil parish (served by Vowchurch and District Parish Council) in south-west Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO3432).
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name
The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A village and civil parish (served by Newton-in-Bowland Parish Council) in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD6950).
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name
The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A small village in Newton and Little Oakley parish, North Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, previously in Kettering district (OS grid ref SP8883).
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK6841).
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name
The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A village in Bywell parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NZ0364).
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name
The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A small village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TL9140).
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name
The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Several places in England:
A village in Newton and Biggin parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP5378).
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name
The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A place in Scotland:
A village in Dumfriesshire, Dumfries and Galloway council area, otherwise known as Newton Wamphray (OS grid ref NY1194).
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name
The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A place in Scotland:
A hamlet east of Collessie, Fife council area, also known as Newton of Collessie (OS grid ref NO2913).
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name
The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A place in Scotland:
A residential area in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire council area (OS grid ref NS6660).
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name
The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A place in Wales:
An eastern suburb of Porthcawl, Bridgend borough county borough (OS grid ref SS8377).
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name
The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A place in Wales:
A suburb in Mumbles community, City and County of Swansea (OS grid ref SS6088).
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name
The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Dale County, Alabama.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A small city, the county seat of Baker County, Georgia.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Jasper County, Illinois.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pleasant Township, Wabash County, Indiana.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Jasper County, Iowa.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Harvey County, Kansas, named after Newton, Massachusetts.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Newton County, Mississippi.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Sussex County, New Jersey.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Catawba County, North Carolina.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Newton County, Texas.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Cache County, Utah.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Grays Harbor County, Washington.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community therein, in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Marquette County, Wisconsin.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Harmony, Vernon County, Wisconsin.
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name
The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships, listed under Newton Township.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A place in Canada:
A neighbourhood in north-east Edmonton, Alberta.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A place in Canada:
A town centre in the city of Surrey, Regional District of Metro Vancouver, British Columbia.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
A town in the Central Region of Singapore.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Places in the Southern Hemisphere:
An inner suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
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The name of many English-speaking places, including:
Places in the Southern Hemisphere:
A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Campbelltown, South Australia.
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name
A habitational surname for someone from any of these places.
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A habitational surname for someone from any of these places.
Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher.
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noun
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of force; the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram by one metre per second per second.
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noun
A cookie consisting of fruit paste in a sheath of pastry dough.
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noun
English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)
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Synonyms: Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton
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Broader terms: mathematician, physicist
noun
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
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Synonyms: N
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Broader terms: force unit
History
Inherited from Middle English Neweton, from Old English nēowa tūn (“new town”). Compare same construction in Italian Napoli (“Naples”) and in Arabic نَابُلُس (nābulus, “Nablus”). The unexpected Early Modern pronunciation with /ɛʊ̯/ instead of /ɪʊ̯/, as securely attested in Richard Hodges' 1644 English Primrose and confirmed by obsolete Welsh Newtwnn, is due to trisyllabic shortening in Old English nēowa tūn or Middle English Neweton.
Named after the English scientist Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726) in 1948.
Attested since the 1990s, from Fig Newtons, a brand name (later renamed just "Newtons" in 2012) which was named for Newton, Massachusetts.
Across languages
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