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定律

dìng lǜ

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

定律 (dìng lǜ) means "scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy); (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "pow". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 定律 means

1. scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy)
2. (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts")

The characters in 定律

• 定dìngto fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc)…
• 律lǜlaw

Example sentences

• 没有任何事物能逃脱墨菲定律。
  Nothing is exempt from Murphy's Law.
• 对马尔萨斯虚构的「土地耗尽」定律最有力的反驳，是苏联集体农场的时间。
  The best refutation of the imaginary Malthusian laws of "land depletion" is the practice of Soviet collective farming.

Words containing 定律

• 运动定律yùn dòng dìng lǜlaws of motion (mechanics)
• 平方反比定律píng fāng fǎn bǐ dìng lǜinverse-square law (physics)
• 摩尔定律Mó ěr dìng lǜ(computing) Moore's law
• 守恒定律shǒu héng dìng lǜconservation law (physics)
• 浮力定律fú lì dìng lǜArchimedes' principle (physical law of buoyancy)

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