ほうそく
Meanings
Noun
1. law; rule
Kanji used
law
rules
Pitch accent
うそく
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Composed of
law; act; method; mood; dharma; law
counter for rules; rule; regulation
Used in vocabulary (112 in total)
physical law; laws of physics
law-like nature; regularity
law of nature; natural law
Murphy's Law ("Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong")
Mendel's laws (of genetic inheritance)
(Fleming's) left-hand rule
Charles' law; Charles's law
Fleming's rules (Fleming's left-hand rule and Fleming's right-hand rule)
law of thermodynamics; laws of thermodynamics
action-reaction law; Newton's third law of motion
Pareto principle; Pareto's law; 80-20 rule
(Fleming's) right-hand rule
law of thermodynamics; laws of thermodynamics
(Mendel's) law of dominance
(Mendel's) law of segregation
(Mendel's) law of independent assortment
Kirchhoff's law; Kirchhoff's laws
Gresham's Law ("when there is a legal tender currency, bad money drives good money out of circulation")
law of equilibrium (Le Chatelier's principle)
law of superposition; principle of superposition
(Mendel's) law of dominance
law of diminishing returns; law of diminishing marginal returns
Examples (8 in total)
You can't go against the laws of nature.
We are subject to the laws of nature.
Newton established the law of gravity.