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Catonian
Catonian Ca*to"ni*an, a. [L. Catonionus.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible.
Daltonian
Daltonian Dal*to"ni*an, n. One afflicted with color blindness.
Huttonian
Huttonian Hut*to"ni*an, a. Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton. --Lyell.
Miltonian
Miltonian Mil*to"ni*an, a. Miltonic. --Lowell.
Muggletonian
Muggletonian Mug`gle*to"ni*an, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired. --Eadie.
Newtonian
Newtonian New*to"ni*an, n. A follower of Newton.
Newtonian potential
Potential Po*ten"tial, n. 1. Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially. --Bacon. 2. (Math.) In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the co["o]rdinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center. 3. (Elec.) The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.
Plutonian
Plutonian Plu*to"ni*an, a. [L. Plutonius, Gr. ?: cf. F. plutonien.] Plutonic. --Poe.
Plutonian
Plutonian Plu*to"ni*an, n. (Geol.) A Plutonist.
Sequoia Washingtoniana
Sequoia Se*quoi"a, n. [NL. So called by Dr. Endlicher in honor of Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee alphabet.] (Bot.) A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. S. gigantea, the ``big tree' of California, and S. sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height.
Washingtonian
Washingtonian Wash`ing*to"ni*an, a. 1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy. --Lowell. 2. Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence. -- n. A member of the Washingtonian Society.

Meaning of Tonian from wikipedia

- The Tonian (from Ancient Gr****: τόνος, romanized: tónos, meaning "stretch") is the first geologic period of the Neoproterozoic Era. It lasted from 1000...
- Neoproterozoic era and the Tonian period. The supercontinent Rodinia ****embled during the Stenian. It would last into the Tonian period before breaking up...
- Precambrian Supereon and the Proterozoic Eon; it is subdivided into the Tonian, Cryogenian, and Ediacaran periods. It is preceded by the Mesoproterozoic...
- the sponge-like organism Otavia has been dated all the way back to the Tonian period, but its identity as an animal is heavily contested. Nearly all modern...
- Namibia in which the fossils were found. The oldest fossils are from the Tonian period, before the Cryogenian glaciations, but the latest found were from...
- private college in downtown Los Angeles. The college was founded in 1969 by Tonian Hohberg, the institute's president and CEO. In 2023, Arizona State University...
- forms the second geologic period of the Neoproterozoic Era, preceded by the Tonian Period and followed by the Ediacaran. The Cryogenian was a time of drastic...
- whole were small, unicellular, and simple (Ediacaran fauna and earlier Tonian Huainan biota being notable exceptions). Complex, multicellular organisms...
- of species described. It has also been found in sediments dating to the Tonian (~1,000 million years ago). Cyclomedusa was originally thought to be a jellyfish...
- Neoproterozoic (539 Ma–1 Ga) Ediacaran (539–635 Ma) Cryogenian (635–720 Ma) Tonian (720 Ma–1 Ga) Mesoproterozoic (1–1.6 Ga) Stenian (1–1.2 Ga) Ectasian (1...