| law of nature | |
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| a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics" [syn: law] |
law of nature
in logic, a stated regularity in the relations or order of phenomena in the world that holds, under a stipulated set of conditions, either universally or in a stated proportion of instances. For the philosophical law of nature, see natural law.
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