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Multi-word Results
| in principle |
with regard to theory, aside from practical application. |
| on principle |
according to one's principles. |
| Pauli exclusion principle |
the principle that no two electrons, protons, or the like in a particular system can occupy the same space at the same time. |
| Peter Principle |
the satiric idea that employees of large organizations tend to be promoted until they reach the level at which they are incompetent. |
| pleasure principle |
in psychoanalysis, the theory that humans tend to secure gratification and pleasure and to avoid pain or unpleasantness. |
| uncertainty principle |
in quantum mechanics, the principle that two related quantities cannot be measured simultaneously and exactly; indeterminacy principle. |
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