Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hooke's_law

1 sense of hooke's law

Sense 1
Hooke's law -- ((physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced)
       => law, law of nature -- (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics")