KEPLER'S FIRST LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kepler's first law mean? 

• KEPLER'S FIRST LAW (noun)
  The noun KEPLER'S FIRST LAW has 1 sense:

1. a law stating that the orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the sun at one focus of the ellipse

  Familiarity information: KEPLER'S FIRST LAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KEPLER'S FIRST LAW (noun)

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Meaning:

A law stating that the orbit of each planet is an ellipse with the sun at one focus of the ellipse

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Kepler's first law" 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)