kepler's first law

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   a law stating that the orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the sun at one focus of the ellipse

   BroaderKepler's law

Questions about kepler's first law

What does kepler's first law mean?

kepler's first law means "a law stating that the orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the sun at one focus of the ellipse".

Is kepler's first law a common word?

kepler's first 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.