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noun
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any written or positive rule or collection of rules prescribed under the authority of the state or nation, as by the people in its constitution. Compare bylaw, statute law.
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the controlling influence of such rules; the condition of society brought about by their observance: maintaining law and order.
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a system or collection of such rules.
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EXPANDthe department of knowledge concerned with these rules; jurisprudence: to study law.
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the body of such rules concerned with a particular subject or derived from a particular source: commercial law.
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an act of the supreme legislative body of a state or nation, as distinguished from the constitution.
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the principles applied in the courts of common law, as distinguished from equity.
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the profession that deals with law and legal procedure: to practice law.
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legal action; litigation: to go to law.
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a person, group, or agency acting officially to enforce the law: The law arrived at the scene soon after the alarm went off.
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any rule or injunction that must be obeyed: Having a nourishing breakfast was an absolute law in our household.
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a rule or manner of behavior that is instinctive or spontaneous: the law of self-preservation.
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(in philosophy, science, etc.)
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a statement of a relation or sequence of phenomena invariable under the same conditions.
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a mathematical rule.
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a principle based on the predictable consequences of an act, condition, etc.: the law of supply and demand.
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a commandment or a revelation from God.
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(sometimes initial capital letter) a divinely appointed order or system.
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the Law. Law of Moses.
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the preceptive part of the Bible, especially of the new testament, in contradistinction to its promises: the law of Christ.
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COLLAPSEverb (used with object)
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Chiefly Dialect. to sue or prosecute.
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British. (formerly) to expeditate (an animal).
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25.
be a law to/unto oneself, to follow one's own inclinations, rules of behavior, etc.; act independently or unconventionally, especially without regard for established mores.
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lay down the law,
a.
to state one's views authoritatively.
b.
to give a command in an imperious manner: The manager laid down the law to the workers.
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take the law into one's own hands, to administer justice as one sees fit without recourse to the usual law enforcement or legal processes: The townspeople took the law into their own hands before the sheriff took action.
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Word Origin & History
law
O.E. lagu (pl. laga, comb. form lah-), from O.N. *lagu "law," collective pl. of lag "layer, measure, stroke," lit. "something laid down or fixed," from P.Gmc. *lagan "put, lay" (see lay (v.)). Replaced O.E. æ and gesetnes, which had the same sense development as law. Cf.
EXPANDalso statute, from L. statuere; Ger. Gesetz "law," from O.H.G. gisatzida; Lith. istatymas, from istatyti "set up, establish." Law and order have been coupled since 1796.
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Medical Dictionary
law (lô)
n.
A rule of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority.
A set of rules or principles for a specific area of a legal system.
A piece of enacted legislation.
A formulation describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met.
A generalization based on consistent experience or results.
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Science Dictionary
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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Abbreviations & Acronyms
| LAWS laser atmospheric wind sounder |
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