inverse square law
- one of several laws relating two quantities such that one quantity varies inversely as the square of the other, as the law that the illumination produced on a screen by a point source varies inversely as the square of the distance of the screen from the source.
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inverse square law
- any natural law in which the magnitude of a physical quantity varies inversely with the square of the distance from its source
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