Dalton
- Proper noun. Any of several places in the north of England and in Scotland.
- Proper noun. (surname, habitational) .
- Proper noun. John Dalton, English chemist.
- Proper noun. (given name, male) transferred from the surname.
- Noun. (chemistry) a former unit of atomic mass equivalent to 1/16 the mass of an oxygen atom; now replaced by the atomic mass unit (or dalton).
- Noun. (context, physics) the atomic mass unit.
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