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Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law is the alternative letter-case form of Murphy's law.

Proper noun capitalized: Murphy's law

Murphy's law

  1. An adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will.
    • I ran into the perfect exemplification of “Murphy's law” at one university, where everything that could go wrong did!1953, Anne Roe, The Making of a Scientist, page 214
    • Thus we find that Murphy's Law is not a coincidence at all, but the consequence of a deep ‘anthropomurphic^([sic]) principle’: any universe built along conventional lines that contains intelligent polymurphs will conform to Murphy's Law.2004, Ian Stewart, Math Hysteria, OUP Oxford, →ISBN

Synonyms of Murphy's Law

Forms of Murphy's Law

alternative formMurphy's Law

Origin of Murphy's Law

Named after Edward A. Murphy Jr. (1918–1990), a development engineer who worked for a brief time on the rocket-sled experiments of the United States Air Force in 1948.

Words formed from Murphy's Law

Questions about Murphy's Law

What does Murphy's Law mean?
Murphy's Law means an adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will.
What is Murphy's Law the alternative letter-case form of?
Murphy's Law is the alternative letter-case form of Murphy's law.
What part of speech is Murphy's Law?
Murphy's Law is a proper noun.

Words near Murphy's Law in the dictionary

  1. Murphy drip
  2. Murphy drips
  3. Murphy game
  4. Murphy games
  5. Murphy's button
  6. Murphy's Law
  7. Murphy's punch
  8. Murphy's sign
  9. Murphy's test
  10. Murphy's triad
  11. Murphy-Lane bone skid

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