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einstein en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Named in honor of Albert Einstein, who explained the photoelectric effect.

Meanings

1. (dated) 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. (informal) A genius; a very smart person.
   • He's a prodigy — they call him their little einstein.
3. (broadly, informal, sarcastic) A genius; a very smart person. ▸ An idiot; a very stupid person.
   • Yeah, that guy is a real einstein — he always finds a way to mess up the simplest order.

Forms

Deriveds

microeinstein (one mole of photons)

Relateds

no shit, Sherlock (fool)

Synonyms

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Translations (2)

pl ajnsztajn (one mole of photons) · pl einstein (one mole of photons)

wikipedia: Albert Einstein · wikipedia: photoelectric effect

einstein en · NOUN · etymology 2

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".

Meanings

1. 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.”) 2023 March 28, Siobhan Roberts, “Elusive ‘Einstein’ Solves a Longstanding Math Problem. And it all began with a hobbyist “messing about and experimenting with shapes””, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Mar 2023:

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Relateds

tessellation · monotiling · aperiodic