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Snell's law
(Encyclopedia)Snell's law: see refraction.Salian Law
(Encyclopedia)Salian Law: see Germanic laws.Charles's law
(Encyclopedia)Charles's law: see gas laws.Boyle's law
(Encyclopedia)Boyle's law: see gas laws.Law, the
(Encyclopedia)Law, the, in Judaism: see Torah.Gresham's law
(Encyclopedia)Gresham's law: see under Gresham, Sir Thomas. ...periodic law
(Encyclopedia)periodic law, statement of a periodic recurrence of chemical and physical properties of the elements when the elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic number. Such an arrangement in the for...distributive law
(Encyclopedia)distributive law. In mathematics, given any two operations, symbolized by * and ∘, the first operation, *, is distributive over the second, ∘, if a*(b∘c)=(a*b)∘(a*c) for all possible choices o...Hubble's law
(Encyclopedia)Hubble's law, in astronomy, statement that the distances between galaxies (see galaxy) or clusters of galaxies are continuously increasing and that therefore the universe is expanding. Hubble's law ...Grimm's law
(Encyclopedia)Grimm's law, principle of relationships in Indo-European languages, first formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822 and a continuing subject of interest and investigation to 20th-century linguists. It shows t...Browse by Subject
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