Newton, cities, United States
Newton.1 City (1990 pop. 16,700), seat of Harvey co., S central Kans., in an agricultural area; inc. 1872. It is a railroad division point with railroad shops and has a large mobile home industry in addition to oil wells. Machinery, motor vehicle parts, plastic products, glass, and furniture are also produced, and there is flour milling. The Chisholm Trail Chisholm Trail, route over which vast herds of cattle were driven from Texas to the railheads in Kansas after the Civil War. Its name is generally believed to come from Jesse Chisholm, a part-Cherokee trader who, in the spring of 1866, drove his wagon, heavily loaded
..... Click the link for more information. passed through the site. In the early 1870s, German Mennonites from Russia brought seed for what became the first hard winter wheat grown in Kansas. The city still has a large Mennonite population, and a monument to their ancestors is there. Bethel College is in North Newton.
2 City (1990 pop. 82,585), Middlesex co., E Mass., a suburb of Boston on the Charles River; settled before 1640, inc. as a city 1873. It comprises 14 residential villages. Industries include publishing and the manufacture of chemicals, precision instruments, and computers. Newton is known as a regional education center. The city is the seat of Andover Newton Theological School, Mount Ida College, Pine Manor College, and a campus of Boston College. Horace Mann Mann, Horace (măn), 1796–1859, American educator, b. Franklin, Mass.
..... Click the link for more information. , Nathaniel Hawthorne Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804–64, American novelist and short-story writer, b. Salem, Mass., one of the great masters of American fiction. His novels and tales are penetrating explorations of moral and spiritual conflicts.
..... Click the link for more information. , Mary Baker Eddy Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821–1910, founder of the Christian Science movement, b. Bow, N.H. As physical frailty prevented her regular school attendance, she spent the early part of her education learning at home from her brother Albert Baker.
..... Click the link for more information. , and Samuel Francis Smith Smith, Samuel Francis, 1808–95, American Baptist clergyman and poet, b. Boston. He is remembered as the author of the national hymn "America," written while he was a student at Andover Theological Seminary. Among his many other hymns is "The Morning Light Is Breaking."
..... Click the link for more information. lived in Newton.
newton, unit of measure
newton, abbr. N, unit of force force, commonly, a "push" or "pull," more properly defined in physics as a quantity that changes the motion, size, or shape of a body. Force is a vector quantity, having both magnitude and direction...... Click the link for more information. in the mks system mks system, system of units of measurement based on the metric system and having the meter of length, the kilogram of mass, and the second of time as its fundamental units.
..... Click the link for more information. of units, which is based on the metric system metric system, system of weights and measures planned in France and adopted there in 1799; it has since been adopted by most of the technologically developed countries of the world.
..... Click the link for more information. ; it is the force that produces an acceleration of 1 meter per second per second when exerted on a mass of 1 kilogram. The newton is named for Sir Isaac Newton.
newton
Absolute unit of force, abbreviated N, in the metre-kilogram-second (MKS) system of physical units (see International System of Units). It is defined as the force necessary to provide a mass of 1 kg with an acceleration of 1 m per second per second. One newton is equal to a force of 100,000 dynes in the centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system, or a force of about 0.2248 lb in the foot-pound-second (English or U.S.) system. It is named for Isaac Newton, whose second law of motion describes the changes a force can produce in the motion of a body.
Newton
(1) (newton) A unit of force in the MKS system. It is the force required to accelerate one kilogram by one meter per second squared.
(2) A set of mobile computing technologies from Apple introduced in 1993 with its MessagePad personal digital assistant (PDA). The ARM-based MessagePad included handwriting recognition, an infrared port for local data transfer and a fax/modem for e-mail and faxes. Although the MessagePad was the name of the device, it was more commonly called the "Newton."
The Newton eMate
In 1997, Apple offered the educational market a Newton-derived portable computer called the "eMate 300." Also using an ARM processor, the eMate had a full-size keyboard that was housed in a case similar in design to the iBook laptop, which was introduced two years later.
A Five-Year Reign
In 1998, Apple stopped production of Newton products due to competition from Palm PDAs, which were becoming very popular. Apple folded the Newton, Inc. subsidiary back into the company after having spun it off only a year earlier to specialize in the PDA niche. Some of the components of the Newton handwriting technology, which was often criticized for not being up to par in the MessagePad, made their way into the Mac OS X operating system a few years later. See PDA and ARM chips.
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| More commonly known as the "Newton," which is the technology behind the MessagePad, this handheld unit pioneered the PDA. (Image courtesy of Apple Inc.) |
newton
Newton
newton [′nüt·ən]
| 1. | Newton - (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. | Newton - Apple Newton. |
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