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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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