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The following 66 entries include the term law of.
law of averages
noun phrase: the commonsense observation that probability influences everyday life so that over the long term the possible outcomes of a repeated event occur with specific frequencies
law of definite proportions
noun phrase: a statement in chemistry: every definite compound always contains the same elements in the same proportions by weight
law of dominance
noun phraselaw of independent assortment
noun phraselaw of large numbers
noun phrase: a theorem in mathematical statistics: the probability that the absolute value of the difference between the mean of a population sample and the mean of the population from which it is drawn is greater than an arbitrarily small amount approaches zero as the size of the sample approaches infinity
Law of Moses
noun phraselaw of nations
noun phraselaw of parsimony
noun phraselaw of segregation
noun phraselaw of war
noun phrase: the code that governs or one of the rules that govern the rights and duties of belligerents in international war
brazen law of wages
Einstein law of photochemical equivalence
: a law in quantum theory: each molecule activated in any photochemical process absorbs one photon of radiant energy compare einstein
Galton's law of inheritance
: a theory in genetics: the parents of an individual together contribute on an average 50 percent of the total inherited characters, the 4 grandparents together 25 percent, the 3d generation of ancestors together 12.5 percent, etc. compare mendel's law
iron law of wages
: a statement in economics: wages naturally tend to fall to the minimum level necessary for subsistence
law of absorption
: a theorem in logic: to affirm that either some proposition is true or else that that proposition and some other proposition are both true is equivalent to affirming the first proposition
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- Before we went to her house, Hannah told us her aunt was a flibbertigibbet.
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