| matter | that which has mass and occupies space, physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it |
| matter | (used with negation) having consequence, they were friends and it was no matter who won the games |
grey matter
gray matter
grey substance
gray substance
substantia grisea | greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers, forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons |
white matter
substantia alba | whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths |
matter affair
thing | a vaguely specified concern, several matters to attend to, it is none of your affair, things are going well |
| matter | a problem, is anything the matter? |
rationale
principle | (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature), the rationale for capital punishment, the principles of internalombustion engines |
topic
subject issue
matter | some situation or event that is thought about, he kept drifting off the topic, he had been thinking about the subject for several years, it is a matter for the police |
| matter of fact | a matter that is an actual fact or is demonstrable as a fact |
working principle
working rule | a rule that is adequate to permit work to be done |
fundamentals
basics
fundamental principle
basic principle
bedrock | principles from which other truths can be derived, first you must learn the fundamentals, let's get down to basics |
pleasure principle
pleasure-pain principle
pleasure-unpleasure principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id, the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality |
| reality principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego, the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it |
| principle | a basic truth or law or assumption, the principles of democracy |
rudiment
first rudiment
first principle
alphabet
ABC
ABC's
ABCs | the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural), he mastered only the rudiments of geometry |
| principle rule | a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system, the principle of the conservation of mass, the principle of jet propulsion, the right-hand rule for inductive fields |
Archimedes' principle
law of Archimedes | (hydrostatics) the apparent loss in weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid |
Gestalt law of organization
Gestalt principle of organization | a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization |
Le Chatelier's principle
Le Chatelier's law
Le Chatelier principle
Le Chatelier-Braun principle | the principle that if any change is imposed on a system that is in equilibrium then the system tends to adjust to a new equilibrium counteracting the change |
Pauli exclusion principle
exclusion principle | no two electrons or protons or neutrons in a given system can be in states characterized by the same set of quantum numbers |
| principle rule | a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct, their principles of composition characterized all their works |
| principle | a rule or standard especially of good behavior, a man of principle, he will not violate his principles |
accounting principle
accounting standard | a principle that governs current accounting practice and that is used as a reference to determine the appropriate treatment of complex transactions |
ethic
moral principle
value-system
value orientation | the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group, the Puritan ethic, a person with old-fashioned values |
legal principle
judicial principle
judicial doctrine | (law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence |
| principle of relativity | (physics) a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referred |
Occam's Razor
Ockham's Razor
principle of parsimony
law of parsimony | the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly, the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred |
| principle of equivalence | (physics) the principle that an observer has no way of distinguishing whether his laboratory is in a uniform gravitational field or is in an accelerated frame of reference |
| principle of liquid displacement | (hydrostatics) the volume of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the volume of the displaced fluid |
principle of superposition
Huygens' principle of superposition | the displacement of any point due to the superposition of wave systems is equal to the sum of the displacements of the individual waves at that point, the principle of superposition is the basis of the wave theory of light |
| principle of superposition superposition principle superposition | (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest |
mass-action principle
mass action | (neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in all complex functioning |
localization of function
localisation of function
localization principle
localisation principle
localization
localisation | (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body |
conservation of mass
conservation of matter
law of conservation of mass
law of conservation of matter | a fundamental principle of classical physics that matter cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system |
uncertainty principle
indeterminacy principle | (quantum theory) the theory that it is impossible to measure both energy and time (or position and momentum) completely accurately at the same time |
| matter | written works (especially in books or magazines), he always took some reading matter with him on the plane |
text
textual matter | the words of something written, there were more than a thousand words of text, they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech, he wants to reconstruct the original text |
| copy written matter | matter to be printed, exclusive of graphical materials |
front matter
prelims | written matter preceding the main text of a book |
back matter
end matter | written matter following the main text of a book |
message
content
subject matter
substance | what a communication that is about something is about |
crux
crux of the matter | the most important point |
principle
precept | rule of personal conduct |
| moral principle | the principle that conduct should be moral |
question of fact
matter of fact | a disputed factual contention that is generally left for a jury to decide |
question of law
matter of law | a disputed legal contention that is generally left for a judge to decide |
artwork
art
graphics nontextual matter | photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication, the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book |
picture
pictorial matter | illustrations used to decorate or explain a text, the dictionary had many pictures |
tabulation
tabular matter | information set out in tabular form |
foregone conclusion
matter of course | an inevitable ending |