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principle

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principle
1. a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the behaviour of a system
2. Chem a constituent of a substance that gives the substance its characteristics and behaviour

principle [′prin·sə·pəl]
(science and technology)
A scientific law which is highly general or fundamental, and from which other laws are derived.


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DURING a shower of rain the Keeper of a Zoological garden observed a Man of Principle crouching beneath the belly of the ostrich, which had drawn itself up to its full height to sleep.
This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children.
This is the principle expressed in Aristotle's account of political justice, the principle of "tools to those who can use them.
 
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