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S: (n) law, jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority) "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
S: (n) enabling legislation (legislation that gives appropriate officials the authority to implement or enforce the law)
S: (n) occupational safety and health act, federal job safety law (a law passed by the United States Congress that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment)
S: (n) common law, case law, precedent (a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws) "common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States"
S: (n) maritime law, marine law, admiralty law (the branch of international law that deals with territorial and international waters or with shipping or with ocean fishery etc.)
S: (n) law of the land (a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law); today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process) "the United States Constitution declares itself to be `the supreme law of the land'"
S: (n) military law (the body of laws and rules of conduct administered by military courts for the discipline, trial, and punishment of military personnel)
S: (n) Mosaic law, Law of Moses (the laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah))
S: (n) shariah, shariah law, sharia, sharia law, Islamic law (the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed) "sharia is only applicable to Muslims"; "under Islamic law there is no separation of church and state"
S: (n) all-or-none law ((neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus)
S: (n) principle, rule (a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system) "the principle of the conservation of mass"; "the principle of jet propulsion"; "the right-hand rule for inductive fields"
S: (n) Avogadro's law, Avogadro's hypothesis (the principle that equal volumes of all gases (given the same temperature and pressure) contain equal numbers of molecules)
S: (n) Bernoulli's law, law of large numbers ((statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics)
S: (n) Benford's law (a law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers) "Benford's law holds that 30% of the time the first non-zero digit of a derived number will be 1 and it will be 9 only 4.6% of the time"
S: (n) Bose-Einstein statistics ((physics) statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle does not apply))
S: (n) Coulomb's Law (a fundamental principle of electrostatics; the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged particles is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the distance between them; principle also holds for magnetic poles)
S: (n) Dalton's law, Dalton's law of partial pressures, law of partial pressures ((chemistry and physics) law stating that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases equals the sum of the partial pressures of the gases in the mixture; the pressure of a gas in a mixture equals the pressure it would exert if it occupied the same volume alone at the same temperature)
S: (n) distribution law ((chemistry) the total energy in an assembly of molecules is not distributed equally but is distributed around an average value according to a statistical distribution)
S: (n) equilibrium law, law of chemical equilibrium ((chemistry) the principle that (at chemical equilibrium) in a reversible reaction the ratio of the rate of the forward reaction to the rate of the reverse reaction is a constant for that reaction)
S: (n) Fechner's law, Weber-Fechner law ((psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to the logarithm of the stimulus intensity; based on early work by E. H. Weber)
S: (n) Fermi-Dirac statistics ((physics) law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle applies))
S: (n) Henry's law ((chemistry) law formulated by the English chemist William Henry; the amount of a gas that will be absorbed by water increases as the gas pressure increases)
S: (n) Hooke's law ((physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced)
S: (n) Hubble's law, Hubble law ((astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer)
S: (n) Kirchhoff's laws ((physics) two laws governing electric networks in which steady currents flow: the sum of all the currents at a point is zero and the sum of the voltage gains and drops around any closed circuit is zero)
S: (n) law of averages (a law affirming that in the long run probabilities will determine performance)
S: (n) law of diminishing returns (a law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectiveness)
S: (n) law of effect ((psychology) the principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences; behavior having good consequences tends to be repeated whereas behavior that leads to bad consequences is not repeated)
S: (n) law of gravitation, Newton's law of gravitation ((physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them)
S: (n) law of multiple proportions, Dalton's law ((chemistry) law stating that when two elements can combine to form more than one compound the amounts of one of them that combines with a fixed amount of the other will exhibit a simple multiple relation)
S: (n) law of mass action ((chemistry) the law that states the following principle: the rate of a chemical reaction is directly proportional to the molecular concentrations of the reacting substances)
S: (n) law of thermodynamics ((physics) a law governing the relations between states of energy in a closed system)
S: (n) Mendel's law ((genetics) one of two principles of heredity formulated by Gregor Mendel on the basis of his experiments with plants; the principles were limited and modified by subsequent genetic research)
S: (n) Ohm's law (electric current is directly proportional to voltage and inversely proportional to resistance; I = E/R)
S: (n) Pascal's law, Pascal's law of fluid pressures (pressure applied anywhere to a body of fluid causes a force to be transmitted equally in all directions; the force acts at right angles to any surface in contact with the fluid) "the hydraulic press is an application of Pascal's law"
S: (n) periodic law, Mendeleev's law ((chemistry) the principle that chemical properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers)
S: (n) Planck's law ((physics) the basis of quantum theory; the energy of electromagnetic waves is contained in indivisible quanta that have to be radiated or absorbed as a whole; the magnitude is proportional to frequency where the constant of proportionality is given by Planck's constant)
S: (n) Planck's radiation law ((physics) an equation that expresses the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of an ideal black body)
S: (n) principle of relativity ((physics) a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referred)
S: (n) Stevens' law, power law, Stevens' power law ((psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to a power of the stimulus intensity)
S: (n) Weber's law ((psychophysics) the concept that a just-noticeable difference in a stimulus is proportional to the magnitude of the original stimulus) "Weber's law explains why you don't notice your headlights are on in the daytime"
S: (n) jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy (the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do)
S: (n) law, practice of law (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system) "he studied law at Yale"