law of nature

1. 1.

   a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature

   “the laws of thermodynamics”

   Synonymslaw

   Broaderconcept

   Narrowerall-or-none lawprincipleArchimedes' principleAvogadro's lawBernoulli's lawBenford's lawBose-Einstein statisticsBoyle's lawCoulomb's LawDalton's law

   Part oftheory

Questions about law of nature

What does law of nature mean?

law of nature means "a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature".

What is another word for law of nature?

Close synonyms include 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 law of nature a common word?

law of nature 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.