WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

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 .
   (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)