Definition of PRINCIPLE. Meaning of PRINCIPLE. Synonyms of PRINCIPLE

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Definition of PRINCIPLE

Principle
Principle Prin"ci*ple, n. [F. principe, L. principium beginning, foundation, fr. princeps, -cipis. See Prince.] 1. Beginning; commencement. [Obs.] Doubting sad end of principle unsound. --Spenser. 2. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.

Meaning of PRINCIPLE from wikipedia

- A principle may relate to a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of beliefs or behavior or a chain of reasoning...
- The uncertainty principle, also known as Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle, is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics. It states that there is...
- The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective...
- Bernoulli's principle is a key concept in fluid dynamics that relates pressure, density, speed and height. Bernoulli's principle states that an increase...
- Archimedes' principle states that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially, is equal to the...
- The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that for many outcomes, roughly...
- Dirichlet's principle is the ****umption that the minimizer of a certain energy functional is a solution to Poisson's equation. Dirichlet's principle states...
- The single-responsibility principle (SRP) is a computer programming principle that states that "A module should be responsible to one, and only one, actor...
- Exclusion principle may refer to: Exclusion principle (philosophy), epistemological principle In economics, the exclusion principle states "the owner...
- and particularly in axiomatic set theory, the diamond principle ◊ is a combinatorial principle introduced by Ronald Jensen in Jensen (1972) that holds...