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The following 66 entries include the term law of.
law of acceleration
: a generalization in biology: the order of development of a structure or organ is directly related to its importance to the organism
law of action and reaction
law of areas
: kepler's law
law of Boyle and Mariotte
: boyle's law
law of causation
: a principle in philosophy: every change in nature is produced by some cause
law of combining volumes
: gay-lussac's law
law of conservation of mass
law of conservation of momentum
law of constant angles
: a law in crystallography: the angles between the various faces of a crystal remain unchanged throughout its growth
law of constant proportion
law of constant return
: a statement in economics: an increase of the scale of production in an industry gives a proportionate increase of return or the increase in area of land cultivated requires a proportionate increase in outlay for labor or materials
law of continuity
: a principle in philosophy: there is no break in nature and nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states
law of contradiction
: a principle in logic: a thing cannot at the same time both be and not be of a specified kind (as a table and not a table) or in a specified manner (as red or not red)
law of cosines
: a law in trigonometry: the square of a side of a plane triangle equals the sum of the squares of the remaining sides minus twice the product of those sides and the cosine of the angle between them
law of demand
: a statement in economics: the quantity of an economic good purchased will vary inversely with its price compare inferior good
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