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law (lô) Pronunciation Key
n.

A rule of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority.
1. The body of rules and principles governing the affairs of a community and enforced by a political authority; a legal system: international law.
2. The condition of social order and justice created by adherence to such a system: a breakdown of law and civilized behavior.
3. The system of judicial administration giving effect to the laws of a community: All citizens are equal before the law.
4. Legal action or proceedings; litigation: submit a dispute to law.
5. An impromptu or extralegal system of justice substituted for established judicial procedure: frontier law.
6. An agency or agent responsible for enforcing the law. Often used with the: "The law . . . stormed out of the woods as the vessel was being relieved of her cargo" (Sid Moody).
7. Informal A police officer. Often used with the.
8. The science and study of law; jurisprudence.
9. Knowledge of law.
10. The profession of an attorney.
11. The body of principles or precepts held to express the divine will, especially as revealed in the Bible.
12. The first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures.
13. A rule or custom generally established in a particular domain: the unwritten laws of good sportsmanship.
14. A way of life: the law of the jungle.
15. A statement describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met: the law of gravity.
16. A generalization based on consistent experience or results: the law of supply and demand.
A set of rules or principles dealing with a specific area of a legal system: tax law; criminal law.
A piece of enacted legislation.
1. The system of judicial administration giving effect to the laws of a community: All citizens are equal before the law.
2. Legal action or proceedings; litigation: submit a dispute to law.
3. An impromptu or extralegal system of justice substituted for established judicial procedure: frontier law.
4. An agency or agent responsible for enforcing the law. Often used with the: "The law . . . stormed out of the woods as the vessel was being relieved of her cargo" (Sid Moody).
5. Informal A police officer. Often used with the.
6. The science and study of law; jurisprudence.
7. Knowledge of law.
8. The profession of an attorney.
9. The body of principles or precepts held to express the divine will, especially as revealed in the Bible.
10. The first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures.
11. A rule or custom generally established in a particular domain: the unwritten laws of good sportsmanship.
12. A way of life: the law of the jungle.
13. A statement describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met: the law of gravity.
14. A generalization based on consistent experience or results: the law of supply and demand.
1. An agency or agent responsible for enforcing the law. Often used with the: "The law . . . stormed out of the woods as the vessel was being relieved of her cargo" (Sid Moody).
2. Informal A police officer. Often used with the.
3. The science and study of law; jurisprudence.
4. Knowledge of law.
5. The profession of an attorney.
6. The body of principles or precepts held to express the divine will, especially as revealed in the Bible.
7. The first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures.
8. A rule or custom generally established in a particular domain: the unwritten laws of good sportsmanship.
9. A way of life: the law of the jungle.
10. A statement describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met: the law of gravity.
11. A generalization based on consistent experience or results: the law of supply and demand.
1. The science and study of law; jurisprudence.
2. Knowledge of law.
3. The profession of an attorney.
4. The body of principles or precepts held to express the divine will, especially as revealed in the Bible.
5. The first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures.
6. A rule or custom generally established in a particular domain: the unwritten laws of good sportsmanship.
7. A way of life: the law of the jungle.
8. A statement describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met: the law of gravity.
9. A generalization based on consistent experience or results: the law of supply and demand.
Something, such as an order or a dictum, having absolute or unquestioned authority: The commander's word was law.
Law
1. The body of principles or precepts held to express the divine will, especially as revealed in the Bible.
2. The first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures.
3. A rule or custom generally established in a particular domain: the unwritten laws of good sportsmanship.
4. A way of life: the law of the jungle.
5. A statement describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met: the law of gravity.
6. A generalization based on consistent experience or results: the law of supply and demand.
A code of principles based on morality, conscience, or nature.
1. A rule or custom generally established in a particular domain: the unwritten laws of good sportsmanship.
2. A way of life: the law of the jungle.
3. A statement describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met: the law of gravity.
4. A generalization based on consistent experience or results: the law of supply and demand.
1. A statement describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met: the law of gravity.
2. A generalization based on consistent experience or results: the law of supply and demand.
Mathematics A general principle or rule that is assumed or that has been proven to hold between expressions.
A principle of organization, procedure, or technique: the laws of grammar; the laws of visual perspective.

intr.v. lawed, law·ing, laws
To go to law; litigate.

[Middle English, from Old English lagu, from Old Norse *lagu, variant of lag, that which is laid down; see legh- in Indo-European roots.]

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laws
noun
the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit [syn: Torah]

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law (lô) Pronunciation Key
A statement that describes invariable relationships among phenomena under a specified set of conditions. Boyle's law, for instance, describes what will happen to the volume of an ideal gas if its pressure changes and its temperature remains the same. The conditions under which some physical laws hold are idealized (for example, there are no ideal gases in the real world), thus some physical laws apply universally but only approximately. See Note at hypothesis.

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LAWS
laser atmospheric wind sounder

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