Einstein

einstein English thumb|en Albert Einstein (en Q937) Etymology en :bor de:Einstein 1 en de Einstein. The common noun is an eponym of en Albert Einstein Albert Einstein physicist. Pronunciation īn′stīn′ īn′shtīn′ more common less common The less common variant is closer to the German source. en /ˈaɪnˌstaɪn/<q:more common> /ˈaɪnˌʃtaɪn/<q:less common> RP,GenAm,CanE,NZE,ScE en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Einstein.wav Southern England en /ˈɑenˌstɑen/<q:more common> /ˈɑenˌʃtɑen/<q:less common> AuE en /ˈajnˌsʈajn/<q:more common> /ˈajnˌʃʈajn/<q:less common> InE en aɪn 2 en Ein stein Proper noun s en Q937 Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity. en November 10 1919 LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1919/11/10/archives/lights-all-askew-in-the-heavens-men-of-science-more-or-less-agog.html Men of Science More or Less Agog Over Results of Eclipse Observations.EINSTEIN THEORY TRIUMPHSStars Not Where They Seemed or Were Calculated to be, but Nobody Need Worry.A BOOK FOR 12 WISE MENNo More in All the World Could Comprehend it, Said Einstein When His Daring Publishers Accepted it. https://web.archive.org/web/20250611060536/https://www.nytimes.com/1919/11/10/archives/lights-all-askew-in-the-heavens-men-of-science-more-or-less-agog.html 11 June 2025 en 1977 w:James Taylor w:Secret O' Life JT Columbia Records Einstein said he could never understand it all / Planets spinning through space en 1993 w:Steve Martin w:Picasso at the Lapin Agile Gaston: Picasso, Einstein, Schmendiman. Somehow it doesn't have a ring. en 1996 December Gary Andrew Poole Qua Wired https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffmassalin/ 1059-1028 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260320213747/https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffmassalin/ 20 March 2026 en January 22, 2000 Carl Kasell Listener Limerick Challenge: Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me! National Public Radio If Einstein, my dear / Were a toll booth cashier / I imagine he too would be [bored] en surname from German en German. Derived terms en Albert Einstein Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) Bose-Einstein statistics einstein Einstein-Bose statistics Einstein cross Einsteinette Einstein field equation Einsteinian Einsteinian relativity Einsteinism einsteinium Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox (E-P-R paradox, EPR paradox, EPR) Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen telephone Einstein radius Einstein ring Einstein-Rosen bridge (E-R bridge, ER bridge, ER) Einstein's constant Einstein syndrome Einsteiny EPR=ER,ER=EPR Stark-Einstein law Translations Albert Einstein Arabic: ar أَيْنْشْتَايْن m Armenian: hy Էյնշտեյն Azerbaijani: az Eynşteyn Belarusian: be Эйнштэ́йн m Bengali: bn আইনস্টাইন Bulgarian: bg Айнщайн m Chinese: Cantonese: yue 愛因斯坦 Mandarin: cmn 愛因斯坦 Danish: da Einstein Dutch: nl Einstein m Esperanto: eo Ejnŝtejno Finnish: fi Einstein French: fr Einstein Georgian: ka აინშტაინი German: de Einstein m Greek: el Αϊνστάιν m Hebrew: he איינשטיין Aynshteyn Hindi: hi आइनस्टाइन Interlingua: ia Einstein Italian: it Einstein Japanese: ja アインシュタイン Ainshutain Korean: ko 아인슈타인 Macedonian: mk Ајнштајн m Marathi: mr आइनस्टाइन m Navajo: nv hastiin Einstein Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Einstein Nynorsk: nn Einstein Persian: fa اینشتین Polish: pl Einstein m-pr Portuguese: pt Einstein Russian: ru Эйнште́йн m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Ајнштајн m Latin: sh Spanish: es Einstein Thai: th ไอน์สไตน์ aisàdtai Ukrainian: uk Ейнште́йн m Urdu: ur آئنسٹائن Yiddish: yi אײַנשטיין 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 en sometimes sarcastic An extremely clever or intelligent person. en Albert Einstein ; Thesaurus:know-it-all en Can you believe he's just a kindergartener? It looks like they've got an Einstein in the family. en Good job, Einstein, thinking you could grab the wires with your pliers. Anagrams en eeiinnst Nineties nineties en History of science People Individuals en sarcastic terms German Etymology de :af ein-<id:one> Stein -en<id:adjectival> :af ein<id:one> Stein 1 The surname is habitational, from any of various places named with a Middle High German derivative of einsteinen ("to enclose or surround with stone"), cp. de ein-, de Stein and de -en, or from de ein Stein.518 1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of various places named with a Middle High German derivative of einsteinen ‘to enclose or surround with stone’. In the unsettled social climate of the Middle Ages even relatively minor settlements were commonly surrounded with stone walls as a defense against attack. 2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name composed of German ein ‘one’ + Stein ‘stone’. 1 The "an extremely intelligent person" sense is an eponym of Albert Einstein. Pronunciation de /ˈaɪ̯nˌʃtaɪ̯n/ de De-Einstein.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de aɪ̯n 2 de Ein stein Proper noun surname de, notably of Albert Einstein Declension surname Noun de noun m an en Einstein an extremely intelligent person Synonyms de Columbo (a person stating the obvious) References Further reading de eponyms Polish pl:+ Etymology pl :ubor de:Einstein + 1 Pronunciation 'ajn.sztajn Ein.stein ajnsztajn,einstein Proper noun m-pr pl physics Albert Einstein Declension s Derived terms pl nouns ajnsztajn einstein Further reading pl Individuals Portuguese Etymology pt :ubor de:Einstein + 1 Pronunciation pt /ˈaj̃s.taj̃/ BR pt aj̃<q:Brazil> 2 pt Ein stein Proper noun mfbysense en Einstein Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist pt German Noun m an en Einstein an extremely intelligent or wise person pt Individuals Physics