Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun kepler's_second_law

1 sense of kepler's second law

Sense 1
Kepler's second law, law of areas, law of equal areas -- (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; "Kepler's second law means that a planet's orbital speed changes with its distance from the sun")
       => Kepler's law, Kepler's law of planetary motion -- ((astronomy) one of three empirical laws of planetary motion stated by Johannes Kepler)