Einstein
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See also: einstein
Etymology
Borrowed from German Einstein.
- The common noun is an eponym of Albert Einstein.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (more common) /ˈaɪnstaɪn/, (less common) /ˈaɪnʃtaɪn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪn
Proper noun
Einstein (plural Einsteins)
- Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
- 1919 November 10, “LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS”, in New York Times:
- Men of Science More or Less Agog Over Results of Eclipse Observations.
EINSTEIN THEORY TRIUMPHS
Stars Not Where They Seemed or Were Calculated to be, but Nobody Need Worry.
A BOOK FOR 12 WISE MEN
No More in All the World Could Comprehend it, Said Einstein When His Daring Publishers Accepted it.
- 1977, James Taylor (lyrics and music), “Secret O' Life”, in JT, Columbia Records:
- Einstein said he could never understand it all / Planets spinning through space
- 1993, Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile:
- Gaston: Picasso, Einstein, Schmendiman. Somehow it doesn't have a ring.
- 1996 December, Gary Andrew Poole, “Qua”, in Wired, →ISSN:
- We're sitting in a coffee shop in Sunnyvale, California. It's late. I've had a few beers, and my dinner date has downed a few plum wines. I peer deep into his eyes, trying to figure out why so many people throughout the high tech universe think Henry Massalin could be the Einstein of our time.
- 2000 January 22, Listener Limerick Challenge: Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, spoken by Carl Kasell, via National Public Radio:
- If Einstein, my dear / Were a toll booth cashier / I imagine he too would be [bored]
- A surname from German.
Derived terms
- Albert Einstein
- Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)
- Bose-Einstein statistics
- einstein
- Einstein cross
- Einstein field equation
- Einsteinian
- Einsteinian relativity
- einsteinium
- Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox (E-P-R paradox, EPR paradox, EPR)
- Einstein radius
- Einstein ring
- Einstein-Rosen bridge (E-R bridge, ER bridge, ER)
- Einstein's constant
- EPR=ER, ER=EPR
- Stark-Einstein law
Translations
Albert Einstein
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Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Einstein is the 34390th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 659 individuals. Einstein is most common among White (94.54%) individuals.
Noun
Einstein (plural Einsteins)
- (sometimes sarcastic) An extremely clever or intelligent person.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:know-it-all
- Can you believe he's just a kindergartener? It looks like they've got an Einstein in the family.
- Good job, Einstein, thinking you could grab the wires with your pliers.
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