- 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...
- Bernoulli's
principle is a key
concept in
fluid dynamics that
relates pressure, density,
speed and height. Bernoulli's
principle states that an increase...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- and
other fields, the
principle of
least privilege (PoLP), also
known as the
principle of
minimal privilege (PoMP) or the
principle of
least authority (PoLA)...
- and
particularly in
axiomatic set theory, the
diamond principle ◊ is a
combinatorial principle introduced by
Ronald Jensen in
Jensen (1972) that holds...
- 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...
- KISS, an
acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid!", is a
design principle first noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960.
First seen
partly in
American English by at...
