OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10875

principle

/ˈpɹɪnsɪpəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
principio
A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
Let us consider ‘my dog is asleep on the floor’ again. Frege thinks that this sentence can be analyzed in various different ways. Instead of treating it as expressing the applicati…
We need some sort of principles to reason from.
principio
A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
Mr. Genachowski proposed codifying the new principles with four existing principles issued several years ago by the F.C.C. They say that network operators cannot prevent users from…
The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs.
principio
Moral rule or aspect.
I don't doubt your principles.
You are clearly a person of principle.
principio
A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
Bernoulli's principle
The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state.
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