law of physics

collocation in English

meaningsoflawandphysics

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law
noun
uk
/lɔː/us
/lɑː/
a rule, usually made by a government, that is used to order the way in which a ...
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physics
noun[U]
uk
/ˈfɪz.ɪks/us
/ˈfɪz.ɪks/
the scientific study of matter and energy and the effect that they have on ...
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(Definition oflawandphysicsfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflaw of physics

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In contrast, no designer would ever deny alawofphysics; instead, she would find ways of working around it.
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Designs that do not satisfy this constraint are not physically possible, violating either alawofphysicsor some other inviolable relationship.
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Just as alawofphysicsis an abstraction as soon as it is isolated and used for prediction.
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It is a well-knownlawofphysicsthat to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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It is as if alawofphysicsapplies to social services and that every action leads to a reaction.
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It is alawofphysicsthat for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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It is a basiclawofphysicsthat what goes up must one day come down.
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I am not sure whether it is thelawofphysicsthat pendulums swing too far.
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That is an absolute and 100 per cent unbreakablelawofphysics.
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That is an inescapablelawofphysics.
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Further, it was shown that the emergence of life from non-life was clearly consistent with the second law of thermodynamics, a fundamentallawofphysics.
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This disjunction can not be a kind-predicate and therefore the entire statement can not be alawofphysics.
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Unlike law fundamentalists, some philosophers are law pluralists: they question what it means to have alawofphysics.
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They both required that everylawofphysicsshould be invariant under these transformations.
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I never thought of politics as being as logical as the laws of physics.
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Climate change is progressing according to the laws of physics and chemistry, and we will take responsibility for our decisions and, furthermore, for not doing anything at all.
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Like before, mysterious beings behind the shadows are at work again, along with strange, new forces distorting the laws of physics, space-time and reality.
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Such a place does not adhere to the laws of physics or reality.
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