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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The theorem stating that any differentiable symmetry is associated with a conservation law. For example, rotational symmetry implies the conservation of angular momentum.
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- noun physics A
theorem , proven by Emmy Noether in 1915 and published in 1918, stating that anydifferentiable symmetry of the action of aphysical system has a correspondingconservation law .
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Amalie Noether.]
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