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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various principles, such as the conservation of charge and the conservation of energy, directly related to principles of symmetry and requiring some measurable property of a closed system to remain constant as the system changes.
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- noun physics Any of several laws that hold that some
physical property remainsconstant in a closed system regardless of other changes that take place
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