the unit of measurement for force; equivalent to kg-m/s2.

a unit used to measure force

Named in honor the famous mathematician, a Newton is the force needed to give an object weighing 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) an acceleration of 1 meter (3.28 feet) per second squared.

Unit in which force is measured. Symbol "N". One Newton is the force required to give a mass of 1kg an acceleration of 1ms^-2[ edit][ edit][ edit][ edit][ edit][ edit][ edit][ edit

Although Newton is officially the name of the lightweight OS developed by Apple to run on its MessagePad line of PDAs, it is often used to mean the MessagePads (and compatible PDAs) themselves and thus the term "Newton OS" is often used for clarity. The Newton OS is remarkably powerful; it is fully multitasking in spite of the fact that it was designed for small machines. It is optimized for hand-held use, but will readily transfer data to all manner of desktop machines. Historically it was the first PDA. Recently Apple announced that it will discontinue further development of the Newton platform, but will instead work to base future hand-held devices on either Mac OS or Mac OS X with some effort dedicated to making the new devices capable of running current Newton programs.

Mobile computing technologies and Palm Pilots from Apple.

a fully functional computer marketed as a PDA with the first and only operating system designed for handheld computing

adj. Pertaining to the Apple Newton MessagePad personal digital assistant (PDA). See also PDA.