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- 1 Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
"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."
- 2 A surname from German.
- 1 An extremely clever or intelligent person. sarcastic, sometimes
"Can you believe he's just a kindergartener? It looks like they've got an Einstein in the family."
- 2 One mole of photons, regardless of frequency, as used to measure irradiance. dated
"The einstein (symbol E) is an obsolete unit with two conflicting definitions."
- 3 A shape that can be repeated to cover a plane with a nonrepeating pattern.
"In less poetic terms, an einstein is an “aperiodic monotile,” a shape that tiles a plane, or an infinite two-dimensional flat surface, but only in a nonrepeating pattern. (The term “einstein” comes from the German “ein stein,” or “one stone” — more loosely, “one tile” or “one shape.”)"
- 4 someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality wordnet
- 5 A genius; a very smart person. informal
"He's a prodigy — they call him their little einstein."
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- 6 A genius; a very smart person.; An idiot; a very stupid person. broadly, informal, sarcastic
"Yeah, that guy is a real einstein — he always finds a way to mess up the simplest order."
Etymology
Borrowed from German Einstein. * The common noun is an eponym of Albert Einstein.
Borrowed from German Einstein. * The common noun is an eponym of Albert Einstein.
Named in honor of Albert Einstein, who explained the photoelectric effect.
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".
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