physical law
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.83 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A scientific generalization based upon empirical observation that is part of physics, standing in contrast to chemical law, biological law, sociological law, etc.
Example Sentences
- "The assumption seems to have been made that because mechanisms (and so also organisms) work in accordance with physical and chemical laws, they are wholly explicable as the resultants of the operation of these laws."
- "No organism can behave in a manner that would break or contradict physical and chemical laws."
- "The unifying features are the saltwater itself and the fact that the variations are controlled by universal chemical, physical and biological laws."
- "the celebrated Northampton Tables agree with Demoivre's hypothesis in their money results, though by no means exhibiting the same physical law of life"
- "The question is simply which is the lesser burden, subjection to the human laws of health or subjection to the physical laws of disease."
- "“What if we've discovered the underlying physical law of life itself, Jill? […]""