Charles's law

American  

[chahrl-ziz law] / ˈtʃɑrl zɪz ˈlɔ /

noun

Thermodynamics.

1. Gay-Lussac's law.

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Charles's law Scientific  

/ chärl′zĭz /

1. The principle that the volume of a given mass of an ideal gas is proportional to its temperature as long as its pressure remains constant. Charles's law is a subcase of the ideal gas law.

2. Compare Boyle's law

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Etymology

Origin of Charles's law

First recorded in 1785–90; named after J. A. C. Charles (1746–1823), French physicist, who stated it

Example Sentences

Incorporating air into batter is basically chemistry, but Charles’s law in physics governs how it expands.

From Nature

Among much else, and without telling anyone, Cavendish discovered or anticipated the law of the conservation of energy, Ohm’s law, Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures, Richter’s Law of Reciprocal Proportions, Charles’s Law of Gases, and the principles of electrical conductivity.

From Literature

If a thing could be oscillated, accelerated, perturbed, distilled, combined, weighed, or made gaseous they had done it, and in the process produced a body of universal laws so weighty and majestic that we still tend to write them out in capitals: the Electromagnetic Field Theory of Light, Richter’s Law of Reciprocal Proportions, Charles’s Law of Gases, the Law of Combining Volumes, the Zeroth Law, the Valence Concept, the Laws of Mass Actions, and others beyond counting.

From Literature

On a whiteboard at the side of the room were a few notes about the density of gases and Charles’s Law, a chemistry formula dealing with gas, volume and temperature.

From Washington Post