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Newton is a contraction of "New Town", the name of many places in English-speaking countries. It may refer to:

People

  • Isaac Newton (1642–1727), English physicist, mathematician and philosopher
  • Newton (surname), lists of notable people with the surname Newton

Newton as given name

Science and technology

  • Newton (unit), SI unit of force named after Isaac Newton
  • Newton scale, temperature scale devised by Isaac Newton
  • XMM-Newton, orbiting X-ray observatory named after Isaac Newton
  • Newton (platform), a hardware-software platform developed by Apple, Inc.
  • Newton OS, an operating system for the Apple Newton
  • Newton Game Dynamics, a free physics engine for simulating rigid bodies in games and other real-time applications

Places

Australia

Canada

England

Cambridgeshire
Herefordshire
Lancashire
Other

New Zealand

Scotland

Singapore

United States

Wales

Other

See also