LAW OF EQUAL AREAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does law of equal areas mean? 

• LAW OF EQUAL AREAS (noun)
  The noun LAW OF EQUAL AREAS has 1 sense:

1. a law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times

  Familiarity information: LAW OF EQUAL AREAS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAW OF EQUAL AREAS (noun)

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Meaning:

A law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Kepler's second law; law of areas; law of equal areas

Context example:

Kepler's second law means that a planet's orbital speed changes with its distance from the sun

Hypernyms ("law of equal areas" 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)