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The following 66 entries include the term law of.
law of diminishing returns
: a principle in economics: at any given stage of technological advance an increase in productive factors (as labor or capital) applied beyond a certain point fails to bring about a proportional increase in production
law of diminishing utility
: a principle in social science: such as one acquires successive units of a good, the intensity of desire for additional units declines
law of Dulong and Petit
: dulong and petit's law
law of error
: the equation of the normal probability curve to which the accidental errors associated with an extended series of observations tend to conform
law of excluded middle
: a principle in logic: if one of two contradictory statements is denied the other must be affirmed
law of exponents
: one of a set of rules in algebra: exponents of numbers are added when the numbers are multiplied, subtracted when the numbers are divided, and multiplied when raised by still another exponent: am×aⁿ=am+n; am÷aⁿ=am−n; (am)ⁿ=amn
law of Fechner
: weber-fechner law
law of frontality
: the convention of frontality (as in Egyptian art)
law of Guldberg and Waage
: law of mass action
law of identity
law of inertia
law of motion
: a statement in dynamics: a body at rest remains at rest and a body in motion remains in uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an external force
law of nature
: a natural instinct or a natural relation of human beings or other animals due to native character or condition
law of priority
: a principle in taxonomy: the first properly published name of a species or genus takes precedence over any subsequently published compare nomenclature, nomen conservandum
law of recapitulation
: recapitulation theory
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