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principle
English
- 🔊 a basic truth or law or assumption“the principles of democracy”
- 🔊 a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system“the principle of the conservation of mass”
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 a rule or standard especially of good behavior“a man of principle”
- 🔊 rule of personal conduct
- 🔊 (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”
Spanish
- 🔊 precepto principle
- 🔊 principio principle