“law of”

The following 66 entries include the term law of.

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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 phrase

law of independent assortment

noun phrase

law 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 phrase

law of nations

noun phrase

law of parsimony

noun phrase

law of segregation

noun phrase

law 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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