The "rule" that words or phrases borrowed between languages will be modified in their pronunciation as necessary to conform to the set of sounds used by the borrowing language.

(law) A law that exempts from legal liability a person who attempts to give reasonable aid to another person who is injured, ill, or otherwise imperiled.

(law) The law as a set of specific concrete rules set down by longstanding precedents.

(statistics) The statistical tendency toward a fixed ratio in the results when an experiment is repeated a large number of times; law of averages.

A law that is a large-scale attempt by a government to regulate business in the interest of society at large.

(physics) the equation of state of an ideal gas

A marriage based on the duration of cohabitation rather than formal ceremony.

(physics) any physical law, such as that of gravitation, in which a quantity varies inversely with distance from a source as the square of that distance

The half brother of one's spouse. / The husband of one's half-sibling. / The husband of the half-sibling of one's spouse.

plural of De Morgan's law