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Littlewood's law

Littlewood's law proper noun: the observation that a person can expect to experience an event with odds of one in a million approximately once per month.

Proper noun

Littlewood's law

  1. The observation that a person can expect to experience an event with odds of one in a million approximately once per month.

Origin of Littlewood's law

The law was framed by Cambridge University Professor John Edensor Littlewood, and published in a 1986 collection of his work.

Questions about Littlewood's law

What does Littlewood's law mean?
Littlewood's law means the observation that a person can expect to experience an event with odds of one in a million approximately once per month.
What part of speech is Littlewood's law?
Littlewood's law is a proper noun.

Words near Littlewood's law in the dictionary

  1. Littlethunder
  2. Littleton
  3. Littleton and Harestock
  4. Littletons
  5. Littlewood
  6. Littlewood's law
  7. Littlewoods
  8. Littleworth
  9. Littleworths
  10. littlie
  11. littlies

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