Newton is the unit measurement of the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram by one meter per second, abbreviated as “N”.
It is one of the key industrial units for measuring force on objects and defining their strength/resistance to it (this object can resist up to a maximum of 8,000 N force, for example – the term for this example is the tensile strength of an object). To avoid too many zeroes, it is usually shown as “kilo” Newton (1,000 Newton), abbreviated as “kN” (our example – 8,000 N – becomes 8 kN in this abbreviation).