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Kepler's law

Kepler's law is the singular of Kepler's laws.

Meaning of Kepler's laws

Noun

Kepler's laws pl (normally plural, singular Kepler's law)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) The three laws of planetary motion discovered by Kepler in the early 17th century, stating that (i) the orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci, (ii) a line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time, and (iii) the square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit.

Forms of Kepler's law

pluralKepler's laws

Questions about Kepler's law

What is Kepler's law the singular of?
Kepler's law is the singular of Kepler's laws.

Words near Kepler's law in the dictionary

  1. Kepler
  2. Kepler shear
  3. Kepler solid
  4. Kepler solids
  5. Kepler's equation
  6. Kepler's law
  7. Kepler's laws
  8. Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra
  9. Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron
  10. Keplerate
  11. Keplerates

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