Phrase Hound found 20 phrases and 4 compound words that contain principles. The most common are listed below. Open principles in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 20
- first principlesplural of first principle: A basic, foundational proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.
- Guiding Principles
- Design principles
- Chicago principlesA set of guiding principles intended to demonstrate a commitment to freedom of speech and freedom of expression on college campuses in the United States, and according to which even disagreeable and offensive ideas are eligible for …
- Three Principles of the PeopleThe political philosophy espoused by Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese Nationalist Party.
- Mitchell principlesplural of Mitchell principle: Any of the six recommendations that arose from an investigation of decommissioning of weapons in Northern Ireland in 1996, urging all parties involved in the conflict to renounce violence and agree to …
- Bridlington principlesplural of Bridlington principle: Any of a set of rules aimed at resolving conflicts among trade unions.
- anthropic principlesplural of anthropic principle: Any of several similar explanations for the nature of the universe, and for the values of its fundamental constants, that states either that the universe is as it is because otherwise we wouldn't be here to …
- General Responsibility Assignment Software PrinciplesSynonym of General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns: Principle that consists of a set of guidelines for assigning responsibility to classes and objects.
- dictionary on historical principlesA type of scholarly dictionary that displays the history of lexical items through citations.
- equivalence principlesplural of equivalence principle: Any of several principles, concerned with the uniformity of physical measurements in different frames of reference.
- reciprocity principlesplural of reciprocity principle: Any scientific principle that expresses various reciprocal relationships for the behaviour of a physical system.
- dictionaries on historical principlesplural of dictionary on historical principles: A type of scholarly dictionary that displays the history of lexical items through citations.
- superposition principlesplural of superposition principle: The principle stating that for a linear system, the net response is the sum of the response associated with each individual input.
- pigeonhole principlesplural of pigeonhole principle: The theorem which states that any partition of a finite set of n elements into m (< n) subsets (allowing empty subsets) must include a subset with two or more elements; any of certain reformulations …
- Micawber principlesplural of Micawber principle: The claim that something good will turn up, especially when used to justify optimism.
- polluter pays principlesplural of polluter pays principle: The principle that corporations and other entities polluting the environment should pay the full cost of the damage they inflict on society.
- arm's length principlesplural of arm's length principle: The principle that the parties in a transaction should be independent and on an equal footing, without any favorable treatment, fiduciary duties, etc.
- dormitive principlesplural of dormitive principle: A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.
- proximate principlesplural of proximate principle: Any of a class of substances found ready-formed in animal and vegetable tissues, and separable by chemical analysis, such as albumin, sugar, collagen, fat, etc.
Compound words 4
- antiprinciplesplural of antiprinciple: A principle that opposes another principle.
- counterprinciplesplural of counterprinciple: A principle in opposition to another principle.
- metaprinciplesplural of metaprinciple: A principle which governs the application or underpins the domain of other principles.
- subprinciplesplural of subprinciple: A principle making up part of a greater principle.