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    STEVENS' POWER LAW

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    (psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to a power of the stimulus intensityplay

    Synonyms:

    power law; Stevens' law; Stevens' power law

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("Stevens' power law" is a kind of...):

    law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)

    Domain category:

    psychophysics (the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects)

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