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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The physical law stating that at a constant temperature the volume of a confined ideal gas varies inversely with its pressure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
law .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See under
law .
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- noun physics, singular only The observation that the
pressure of anideal gas isinversely proportional to itsvolume at constanttemperature .
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- noun the pressure of an ideal gas at constant temperature varies inversely with the volume
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Robert Boyle.]
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From Robert Boyle Irish natural philosopher
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