Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

newton's apple

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English

Syllables: new-ton's ap-ple
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something that acts as a source of inspiration or triggers an important realization for someone.

Example Sentences

"The 'perfect fluid' which Lord Kelvin desiderated, is an instance that scientists are on the outlook for something that will serve as a Newton's apple to lead them to the larger truth which urges birth from their instincts of faith."
"Shortly afterwards, in a book called Stupeni. Tekst khudozhnika [Steps. An Artist's Text] published in 1918 in Moscow, Kandinsky wrote about himself as the original discoverer of abstract painting and, as is the custom of discoverers, recounted what precisely became his Newton's apple."

Etymology

After the story that English scientist Isaac Newton was inspired to formulate his theory of gravitation by watching the fall of an apple from a tree.

Inflected Forms

Newton's apples (plural)

Questions

What does newton's apple mean?: Something that acts as a source of inspiration or triggers an important realization for someone.
Where does newton's apple come from?: After the story that English scientist Isaac Newton was inspired to formulate his theory of gravitation by watching the fall of an apple from a tree.

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