Phrase Hound found 125 phrases and 7 compound words that contain principle. The most common are listed below. Open principle in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 125
- agreement in principleA legally enforceable, but incompletely specified, agreement between parties that identifies the fundamental terms that are intended to be or are agreed upon.
- principle of charityThe principle according to which an argument should be evaluated in light of its best, strongest possible interpretation.
- principle of relativityThe principle that only the motion of objects relative to one another can be measured, and that there is no absolute frame of reference.
- Peter principleThe theory that people in an organization tend to rise (be promoted) to the level of their incompetence.
- reality principleThe mental mechanism which guides a person, as he or she matures, in adapting to and coping with the real, external world, by suppressing or deferring the childish gratification-seeking desires of the id.
- pleasure principleThe principle that human decisions and behavior are strongly motivated by the instinctual desire of the id, arising in infancy, to experience pleasure and avoid pain.
- Guiding principle
- Pauli exclusion principleA principle in quantum mechanics that states that no two identical fermions may occupy the same quantum state simultaneously.
- Precautionary Principle
- Heisenberg uncertainty principleThe principle that there is an absolute limit on the combined accuracy of certain pairs of simultaneous, related measurements, especially that of the position and momentum of a particle. Originally posited as a problem of measurement, it …
- uncertainty principleThe Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
- Le Chatelier's principleA principle stating that, if a chemical system at equilibrium experiences a change in concentration, temperature, or total pressure, the equilibrium will shift in order to minimize that change.
- Bernoulli's principleThe principle which states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in static pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy.
- Mach's principleThe principle that the inertia of a body arises from its relation to the totality of all other bodies in the universe.
- Fermat's principleThe principle, which links geometrical optics (or "ray optics") with wave optics, that the path traversed by a ray between two given points is: (in the original "strong" formulation) the one that takes the least time, or (in a weaker but …
- cooperative principleThe idea that listeners and speakers need to cooperate in order to communicate effectively.
- sector principleA principle in international law where international boundaries are extended over sea areas in the Arctic towards the North Pole following meridians (lines of longitude). The same principle is used over land in the Antarctic to the South …
- Pareto principleThe principle that describes the phenomenon wherein a small percentage of a population accounts for a large proportion of a particular characteristic of that population.
- correspondence principleThe principle that classical physics is the limit of quantum physics as quantum numbers approach infinity.
- rebus principleThe idea of using ideograms as phonograms representing the sounds of the words expressed by the original ideograms.
- Landauer's principleThe principle that any logically irreversible manipulation of information must entail an increase in the entropy of the information-processing apparatus or its environment.
- single responsibility principleThe principle that every class should have a single responsibility entirely encapsulated by that class.
- context principleA position in the philosophy of language, stating that a word only carries useful meaning in the context of a proposition.
- Hollywood principleA software design principle, stated as "Don't call us, we'll call you", that assists in the development of code with high cohesion and low coupling that is easier to debug, maintain and test.
- Q-principleIn the neo-Gricean semantics and pragmatics of Laurence R. Horn: a reformulation of Paul Grice's maxim of quantity combined with the first two submaxims of manner, stating: "Say as much as you can (given R)", and leading to the implicature …
Compound words 7
- antiprincipleA principle that opposes another principle.
- counterprincipleA principle in opposition to another principle.
- subprincipleA principle making up part of a greater principle.
- metaprincipleA principle which governs the application or underpins the domain of other principles.
- principlismA system of ethics based on the four moral principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.
- principlistA supporter of principlism.
- unprincipleTo destroy the moral principles of.