Einstein
proper noun
- family name
- mountain of the Allgäu Alps in Tyrol, Austria
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪnˌstaɪn/ / /ˈaɪnˌʃtaɪn/ / /ˈɑenˌstɑen/
name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Einstein. * The common noun is an eponym of Albert Einstein.
- 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.”
“Einstein said he could never understand it all / Planets spinning through space”
- A surname from German.
noun
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".
- 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.”)”