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post-Newˈtonian, a.
[f. post- B. 1 b + Newtonian a. and n.]
Subsequent to the life or work of Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727); spec. in Physics (see quots. 1964, 1973).
1865Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. xxvii. 542 Applied mathematics in its post-Newtonian development does nothing to strengthen..these errors. 1963N. Frye Romanticism Reconsidered 5 A post-Newtonian poet has to think of gravitation. 1964Astrophysical Jrnl. CXL. 428 A post-Newtonian approximation, in which the effects of general relativity are treated as first-order corrections. 1973Nature 31 Aug. 537/1 The only precise tests of the applicability of the theory of general relativity to the actual physical world are those long ago proposed by Einstein, and certain other tests proposed more recently that are closely related to Einstein's... They test the theory only to the so-called post-Newtonian approximation, roughly speaking to terms in 1/c2, where c is the speed of light. 1977Astrophysical Jrnl. CCXVI. 914 The tidal radiation can be comparable to the radiation from post-Newtonian effects. |