SIR ISAAC NEWTON

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• SIR ISAAC NEWTON (noun)
  The noun SIR ISAAC NEWTON has 1 sense:

1. English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)

  Familiarity information: SIR ISAAC NEWTON used as a noun is very rare.

• SIR ISAAC NEWTON (noun)

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Meaning:

English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Isaac Newton; Newton; Sir Isaac Newton

Instance hypernyms:

mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

 Context examples 

Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)