harmonic law

1. 1.

   a law stating that the ratio of the square of the revolutionary period (in years) to the cube of the orbital axis (in astronomical units) is the same for all planets

   SynonymsKepler's third law

   BroaderKepler's law

Questions about harmonic law

What does harmonic law mean?

harmonic law means "a law stating that the ratio of the square of the revolutionary period (in years) to the cube of the orbital axis (in astronomical units) is the same for all planets".

What is another word for harmonic law?

Close synonyms include Kepler's third law. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is harmonic law a common word?

harmonic law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.