newton

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newton - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Newton
      n 1: English mathematician and physicist; remembered for
           developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and
           his three laws of motion (1642-1727) [syn: Newton, Isaac Newton
           , Sir Isaac Newton]
      2: 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 [syn: newton, N]

newton - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Newton
  
     1. (Named after Isaac Newton (1642-1727)).  Rapin et al, Swiss
     Federal Inst Tech, Lausanne 1981.  General purpose expression
     language, syntactically ALGOL-like, with object-oriented and
     functional features and a rich set of primitives for
     concurrency.  Used for undergraduate teaching at Lausanne
     (EPFL).
  
     Versions: Newton 2.6 for VAX/VMS and Newton 1.2 for
     DEC-Alpha/OSF-1.
  
     E-mail: J. Hulaas <hulaas@lcodec1.epfl.ch>.
     (ftp://ellc4.epfl.ch /pub/languages/Newton).
  
     ["Procedural Objects in Newton", Ch. Rapin, SIGPLAN Notices
     24(9) (Sep 1989)].
  
     ["The Newton Language", Ch. Rapin et al, SIGPLAN Notices
     16(8):31-40 (Aug 1981)].
  
     ["Programming in Newton", Wuetrich and Menu, EPFL 1982].
  
     2. Apple Newton.
  
     (2000-08-29)
  

newton - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Newton, AL (town, FIPS 54480)
    Location: 31.33913 N, 85.58858 W
    Population (1990): 1580 (632 housing units)
    Area: 35.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 36352
  Newton, GA (city, FIPS 55244)
    Location: 31.31637 N, 84.33669 W
    Population (1990): 703 (301 housing units)
    Area: 7.5 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 31770
  Newton, IA (city, FIPS 56505)
    Location: 41.69510 N, 93.04510 W
    Population (1990): 14789 (6477 housing units)
    Area: 23.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 50208
  Newton, IL (city, FIPS 52844)
    Location: 38.98807 N, 88.16334 W
    Population (1990): 3154 (1456 housing units)
    Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 62448
  Newton, KS (city, FIPS 50475)
    Location: 38.04439 N, 97.34191 W
    Population (1990): 16700 (6955 housing units)
    Area: 20.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 67114
  Newton, MA (city, FIPS 45560)
    Location: 42.33157 N, 71.20708 W
    Population (1990): 82585 (30497 housing units)
    Area: 46.8 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
  Newton, MS (city, FIPS 51720)
    Location: 32.31973 N, 89.15890 W
    Population (1990): 3701 (1505 housing units)
    Area: 12.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 39345
  Newton, NC (city, FIPS 47000)
    Location: 35.66545 N, 81.21870 W
    Population (1990): 9304 (3986 housing units)
    Area: 21.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 28658
  Newton, NH
    Zip code(s): 03858
  Newton, NJ (town, FIPS 51930)
    Location: 41.05485 N, 74.75382 W
    Population (1990): 7521 (3115 housing units)
    Area: 8.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Newton, TX (city, FIPS 51372)
    Location: 30.85050 N, 93.75277 W
    Population (1990): 1885 (831 housing units)
    Area: 14.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 75966
  Newton, UT (town, FIPS 54550)
    Location: 41.86124 N, 111.98915 W
    Population (1990): 659 (189 housing units)
    Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Newton, WI
    Zip code(s): 53063