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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) law (legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity) "there is a law against kidnapping"
S: (n) law, natural law (a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society)
S: (n) law, law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature) "the laws of thermodynamics"
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"