is a specific kind of: concept, conception, construct.

is a broader term that covers: all-or-none law | principle, rule | Archimedes' principle, law of Archimedes | Avogadro's hypothesis, Avogadro's law | Bernoulli's law, law of large numbers | Benford's law | Bose-Einstein statistics | Boyle's law, Mariotte's law | Coulomb's Law | Dalton's law, Dalton's law of partial pressures, law of partial pressures | distribution law | equilibrium law, law of chemical equilibrium | Fechner's law, Weber-Fechner law | Fermi-Dirac statistics | Charles's law, Gay-Lussac's law, law of volumes | Henry's law | Hooke's law | Hubble's law, Hubble law | Kepler's law, Kepler's law of planetary motion | Kirchhoff's laws | law of averages | law of constant proportion, law of definite proportions | law of diminishing returns | law of effect | law of equivalent proportions, law of reciprocal proportions | law of gravitation, Newton's law of gravitation | Dalton's law, law of multiple proportions | law of mass action | law of thermodynamics | Mendel's law | law of motion, Newton's law, Newton's law of motion | Ohm's law | Pascal's law, Pascal's law of fluid pressures | exclusion principle, Pauli exclusion principle | Mendeleev's law, periodic law | Planck's law | Planck's radiation law | principle of relativity | power law, Stevens' law, Stevens' power law | Weber's law ... show more.

is a part of: theory.