| law |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping" the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics" a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; "he studied law at Yale" police: the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him" jurisprudence: the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
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| law of definite proportions |
law of constant proportion: (chemistry) law stating that every pure substance always contains the same elements combined in the same proportions by weight
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| law of mass action |
(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
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| law of multiple proportions |
(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
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| law of reciprocal proportions |
law of equivalent proportions: (chemistry) law stating that the proportions in which two elements separately combine with a third element are also the proportions in which they combine together
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