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DISTRIBUTION LAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(chemistry) the total energy in an assembly of molecules is not distributed equally but is distributed around an average value according to a statistical distribution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("distribution law" is a kind of...):
law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distribution law"):
Boltzmann distribution law; Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law ((physics) a law expressing the distribution of energy among the molecules of a gas in thermal equilibrium)
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