KEPLER'S FIRST LAW

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A law stating that the orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the sun at one focus of the ellipse

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Kepler's first law" is a kind of...):

Kepler's law; Kepler's law of planetary motion ((astronomy) one of three empirical laws of planetary motion stated by Johannes Kepler)

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