Eddington or Edington may refer to:

People

* Eddington Varmah, Liberian politician * Eddington (surname), people with the surname

Places

Australia

Eddington, Victoria Eddington is a locality in the Shire of Loddon, and Shire of Mount Alexander, Victoria, Australia. It is approximately north-west from Melbourne. Eddington is located on the Loddon River The Loddon River, an inland river of the northcentral ...

United Kingdom

Eddington, Berkshire Eddington is a village in the civil parish of Hungerford in the West Berkshire district of Berkshire, England. It lies approximately north-east from Hungerford, its nearest town and is divided from it by the River Kennet. The Eddington estate is ...

* Eddington, Cambridge *

Eddington, Kent Eddington was a village in Kent, South East England to the south-east of Herne Bay, Kent, Herne Bay, to the west of Beltinge and to the north of Herne, Kent, Herne. It is now a suburb of Herne Bay, in Greenhill, Kent, Greenhill and Eddington ...

Edington, Somerset Edington is a rural village, situated on the north side of the Polden Hills in Somerset, England. Either side of it lie the villages of Chilton Polden and Catcott, and north of it is the small village of Burtle. There is a 12th-century chur ...

Edington, Wiltshire Edington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about east-northeast of Westbury. The village lies under the north slope of Salisbury Plain and the parish extends south onto the Plain. Its Grade I listed parish church was built ...

Edington Priory Edington Priory in Wiltshire, England, was founded by William Edington, the bishop of Winchester, in 1351 in his home village of Edington, about east of the town of Westbury. The priory church was consecrated in 1361 and continues in use as t ...

United States

Eddington, Maine Eddington is a town located on the eastern side of the Penobscot River in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 2,194. History The town was founded by and named after Jonathan Eddy, a m ...

Eddington, Pennsylvania Eddington is a census-designated place located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community was part of Cornwells Heights-Eddington, which was split into two separate CDPs. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,906. The ...

** Eddington (SEPTA station)

Other uses

Battle of Edington The Battle of Edington or Battle of Ethandun was fought in May 878 between the West Saxon army of King Alfred the Great and the Great Heathen Army led by the Danish warlord Guthrum. The battle took place near Edington, Wiltshire, Edington in ...

, decisive victory by Alfred the Great * ''Eddington'' (film), upcoming film by Ari Aster *

Eddington (horse) Eddington (foaled in 2001) is a millionaire American Thoroughbred racehorse and successful sire bred in Kentucky by Carl Rosen and Associates and raced under the Willmott Stables banner (''nom de course'' for Peter Willmott). He finished racing ...

, American thoroughbred racehorse

Named after Sir Arthur Eddington

Eddington (crater) Eddington is the lava-flooded remnant of a lunar impact crater, located on the western part of Oceanus Procellarum. The western rim is attached to the wall of the walled plain Struve. To the east-southeast is the smaller but prominent crater Sel ...

, on the Moon * Eddington (spacecraft), a cancelled ESA mission to search for extrasolar planets *

Eddington luminosity The Eddington luminosity, also referred to as the Eddington limit, is the maximum luminosity a body (such as a star) can achieve when there is balance between the force of radiation acting outward and the gravitational force acting inward. The stat ...

or Eddington limit, relating to the maximum mass of a star *

Eddington Medal The Eddington Medal is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics. It is named after Sir Arthur Eddington. First awarded in 1953, the frequency of the prize has varied over the ye ...

, awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society *

Eddington number In astrophysics, the Eddington number, , is the number of protons in the observable universe. Eddington originally calculated it as about ; current estimates make it approximately . The term is named for British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington ...

, the number of protons in the observable universe * Eddington–Dirac number, alternative name for the

Dirac large numbers hypothesis The Dirac large numbers hypothesis (LNH) is an observation made by Paul Dirac in 1937 relating ratios of size scales in the Universe to that of force scales. The ratios constitute very large, dimensionless numbers: some Orders of magnitude (numbe ...

Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates In general relativity, Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates are a pair of coordinate systems for a Schwarzschild geometry (e.g. a spherically symmetric black hole) which are adapted to radial null geodesics. Null geodesics are the worldlines of ...

, in the theory of general relativity {{disambiguation, geo