principally
— Adverb
– English
～ for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies"
principalship
— Noun
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～ the post of principal
principe
— Noun
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～ an island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Sao Tome and Principe
Principen
— Noun
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～ semisynthetic penicillin (trade names Principen and Polycillin and SK-Ampicillin)
petitio principii
— Noun
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～ the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question
principle of parsimony
— Noun
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～ the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred
principle
— Noun
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～ a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system; "the principle of the conservation of mass"; "the principle of jet propulsion"; "the right-hand rule for inductive fields"
principle of liquid displacement
— Noun
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～ (hydrostatics) the volume of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the volume of the displaced fluid
principle
— Noun
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～ a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct; "their principles of composition characterized all their works"
principle
— Noun
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～ a rule or standard especially of good behavior; "a man of principle"; "he will not violate his principles"
principle of equivalence
— Noun
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～ (physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference
principle
— Noun
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～ (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature); "the rationale for capital punishment"; "the principles of internal-combustion engines"
principle
— Noun
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～ a basic truth or law or assumption; "the principles of democracy"
principle
— Noun
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～ rule of personal conduct
pleasure-pain principle
— Noun
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～ (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
pleasure principle
— Noun
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～ (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
Pauli exclusion principle
— Noun
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～ no two electrons or protons or neutrons in a given system can be in states characterized by the same set of quantum numbers
principled
— Adjective
– English
～ based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality; "principled pragmatism and unprincipled expediency"; "a principled person"