einsteins

Noun (1)

einstein (plural einsteins)

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.

   Synonyms:

   boffin, brain, brainiac, bright spark, egghead, geek, nerd, Poindexter, propeller head, shrewd article

   1. (broadly, informal, sarcastic) An idiot; a very stupid person.
      • Yeah, that guy is a real einstein — he always finds a way to mess up the simplest order.

Noun (2)

einstein (plural einsteins)

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...

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