principle

AU, CA, US, UK /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/

Etymology From Middle English principle, from Old French principe, from Latin prīncipium (“beginning, foundation”), from prīnceps (“first”). By surface analysis, prīmus (“first”) + -ceps (“catcher”); the former ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before”); see also prince.

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acceleration principle, agreement in principle, Anna Karenina principle, anthropic principle, antiprinciple, Archimedes' principle, arm's length principle, aufbau principle, Babinet's principle, BANANA principle, Bernoulli's principle, Bridlington principle, Cavalieri's principle, Chicago principles, composite reuse principle, context principle, cooperative principle, Copernican principle, Copernican time principle, correspondence principle, cosmological principle, counterprinciple, Courant minimax principle, d'Alembert's principle, day-year principle, dependency inversion principle, desert principle, Dilbert principle, Dirichlet's box principle, Dirichlet's drawer principle, dormitive principle, equivalence principle, extractive principle, Fermat's principle, Fermat's principle of least time, Fick principle, first principle, first principles, four-eye principle, Franck-Condon principle, Goldilocks principle, Haldane principle, handicap principle, Hardy-Weinberg principle, harm principle, Heisenberg principle, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Hollywood principle, holographic principle, Huygens-Fresnel principle, Huygens' principle, IBM Pollyanna Principle, indeterminacy principle, in principle, interface segregation principle, Kerckhoffs's principle, KISS principle, Lagrange-d'Alembert principle, Landauer's principle, Le Châtelier's principle, Le Chatelier's principle, life/dinner principle, life-dinner principle, Liskov substitution principle, Lotus principle, Mach's principle, matter of principle, Matthew principle, MAYA principle, mediocrity principle, metaprinciple, Micawber principle, Mitchell principle, non-aggression principle, nonaggression principle, Novikov self-consistency principle, on principle, open/closed principle, open-closed principle, Pareto principle, parsimony principle, Pauli exclusion principle, Peter Parker principle, Peter principle, pigeonhole principle, Planck's principle, pleasure principle, polluter pays principle, precautionary principle, principled, principle of charity, principle of contradiction, principle of excluded middle, principle of explosion, principle of indifference, principle of insufficient reason, principle of least action, principle of least astonishment, principle of least knowledge, principle of least surprise, principle of least time, principle of legality, principle of locality, principle of parsimony, principle of Pseudo-Scotus, principle of relativity, principle of substitutivity, principle of sufficient reason, principle of verifiability, principle of verification, principlism, principlist, proximate principle, Q-principle, reality principle, rebus principle, reciprocity principle, Ritz's combination principle, Robbins principle, R-principle, Rydberg-Ritz combination principle, Sandford principle, Scheimpflug principle, sector principle, Shirky principle, single responsibility principle, Smurfette principle, Spider-Man principle, strong equivalence principle, subprinciple, superposition principle, uncertainty principle, unprinciple, verifiability principle, verification principle, vicious circle principle, Yao's principle

Related terms

prince, principal, principality