kepler's third 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

   Synonymsharmonic law

   BroaderKepler's law

Questions about kepler's third law

What does kepler's third law mean?

kepler's third 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 kepler's third law?

Close synonyms include harmonic 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 kepler's third law a common word?

kepler's third 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.