Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun archimedes'_principle

1 sense of archimedes' principle

Sense 1
Archimedes' principle, law of Archimedes -- ((hydrostatics) the apparent loss in weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid)
       => law, law of nature -- (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics")