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Einstein

name
/ˈaɪnˌstaɪn/CA/ˈɑenˌstɑen/

Etymology

From German ein Stein, "one stone", coined by scientists in recent decades, but with tongue-in-cheek tacit acknowledgment of the homonymy with einstein and Einstein; "a pun playing with the famous scientist's name and the German term "ein Stein" for "one stone".

  1. borrowed from Einstein

Definitions

  1. Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the…

    Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.

    • Einstein said he could never understand it all / Planets spinning through space
    • Gaston: Picasso, Einstein, Schmendiman. Somehow it doesn't have a ring.

  2. A surname from German.

  3. An extremely clever or intelligent person.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. One mole of photons, regardless of frequency, as used to measure irradiance.

      • The einstein (symbol E) is an obsolete unit with two conflicting definitions.

    2. A genius

      A genius; a very smart person.

      • He's a prodigy — they call him their little einstein.

    3. A shape that can be repeated to cover a plane with a nonrepeating pattern.

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