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- noun See
law .
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- noun physics the
principle that thestress applied to asolid is directlyproportional to thestrain produced. This law describes the behavior ofsprings and solids stressed within theirelastic limit .
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- noun (physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced
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From the name of Robert Hooke, English physicist
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