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Law — synonyms, definition

1. law (Noun)

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law (Noun) — The collection of rules imposed by authority. ex. "civilization presupposes respect for the law"

law (Noun) — Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity. ex. "there is a law against kidnapping"

law (Noun) — A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society.

law (Noun) — A generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature. ex. "the laws of thermodynamics"

law (Noun) — The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do.

law (Noun) — The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system. ex. "he studied law at Yale"

law (Noun) — The force of policemen and officers. ex. "the law came looking for him"

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Archimedes' principle Avogadro's hypothesis Avogadro's law Benford's law Bernoulli's law Bose-Einstein statistics Boyle's law Charles's law Coulomb's Law Dalton's law Dalton's law of partial pressures European Law Enforcement Organisation Europol Fechner's law Fermi-Dirac statistics Gay-Lussac's law Gendarmerie Henry's law Hooke's law Hubble law • • •
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2. law (US)

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constabulary