law of nature
English Thesaurus
1. a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature (noun.cognition)
| hypernym | : | concept, conception, construct, |
| definition | : | an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | all-or-none law, |
| definition | : | (neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | principle, rule, |
| definition | : | a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | archimedes' principle, law of archimedes, |
| definition | : | (hydrostatics) the apparent loss in weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | avogadro's hypothesis, avogadro's law, |
| definition | : | the principle that equal volumes of all gases (given the same temperature and pressure) contain equal numbers of molecules (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | bernoulli's law, law of large numbers, |
| definition | : | (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | benford's law, |
| definition | : | a law used by auditors to identify fictitious populations of numbers; applies to any population of numbers derived from other numbers (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | bose-einstein statistics, |
| definition | : | (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) (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | boyle's law, mariotte's law, |
| definition | : | the pressure of an ideal gas at constant temperature varies inversely with the volume (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | coulomb's law, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | dalton's law, dalton's law of partial pressures, law of partial pressures, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | distribution law, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | equilibrium law, law of chemical equilibrium, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | fechner's law, weber-fechner law, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | fermi-dirac statistics, |
| definition | : | (physics) law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle applies) (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | henry's law, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | hooke's law, |
| definition | : | (physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | hubble law, hubble's law, |
| definition | : | (astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | kirchhoff's laws, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | law of averages, |
| definition | : | a law affirming that in the long run probabilities will determine performance (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | law of diminishing returns, |
| definition | : | a law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectiveness (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | law of effect, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | law of gravitation, newton's law of gravitation, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | dalton's law, law of multiple proportions, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | law of mass action, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | law of thermodynamics, |
| definition | : | (physics) a law governing the relations between states of energy in a closed system (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | mendel's law, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | ohm's law, |
| definition | : | electric current is directly proportional to voltage and inversely proportional to resistance; I = E/R (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | pascal's law, pascal's law of fluid pressures, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | mendeleev's law, periodic law, |
| definition | : | (chemistry) the principle that chemical properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | planck's law, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | planck's radiation law, |
| definition | : | (physics) an equation that expresses the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of an ideal black body (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | principle of relativity, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | power law, stevens' law, stevens' power law, |
| definition | : | (psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to a power of the stimulus intensity (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | weber's law, |
| definition | : | (psychophysics) the concept that a just-noticeable difference in a stimulus is proportional to the magnitude of the original stimulus (noun.cognition) |
| part meronym | : | theory, |
| definition | : | a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena (noun.cognition) |
Visual ArtiKata
Explore law of nature in ArtiKata.com >