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KEPLER'S FIRST LAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A law stating that the orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the sun at one focus of the ellipse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Kepler's first law" is a kind of...):
Kepler's law; Kepler's law of planetary motion ((astronomy) one of three empirical laws of planetary motion stated by Johannes Kepler)