law of conservation
noun
laws of conservation
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pluralof law of conservation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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When chemical reactions occur, the energy changes are relatively modest and the mass changes are too small to measure, so the laws of conservation of matter and energy hold well.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
The two rules are based, respectively, on the laws of conservation of charge and energy.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
These rules are special cases of the laws of conservation of charge and conservation of energy.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The physicists found that the laws of conservation were violated because of the possible existence of a third element that was neither proton nor electron.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 19, 2013
Delicate laws of conservation preserve all grudges balanced, all the accounts settled and all agony equally distributed.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
