lawlike
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- adjective
- /ˈlɔːˌlaɪk/
- The scientist discovered lawlike patterns in the behavior of the experiment's results.
- lawlike regularity
- predictable and lawlike
Examples
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"Even the most atheistic scientist," he said upon receiving the Templeton Prize, "accepts as an act of faith the existence of a lawlike order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us."
Blog text (5) -
Finally, this explanatory pattern yields typically only singular rather than general lawlike explanations.
Academic text (1991) -
There must be principles governing the various changes and lawlike processes that yield harmony and stability, even among the dynamic phenomena.
Academic text (1991) -
It is persistent and lawlike, connected to itself throughout by its own unchanging identity.
Academic text (1991) -
Finally, these relationships represent evolutionary contingent generalizations, which threaten their lawlike status.
Academic text (2013) -
It can therefore serve as an image of the persistent and lawlike aspects of the cosmos, which are essentially unaffected by change and time-lapse.
Academic text (1991) -
The anti-reductionist denies that every truth about the universe, every 'lawlike generalization', is expressible in the vocabulary of fundamental physics.
Blog text (3) -
In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur but once in detailed glory, and the more repeatable, lawlike phenomena that may pervade life's history as generalities.
Academic text (1995) -
Marx lived and worked in the heyday of mechanistic science, the height of general conviction among intellectuals that the natural world, and the social as well, worked in a predictable and lawlike manner and could be explicated with rigorous methods that had been so successful in the physical sciences.
Academic text (1992) -
The weather often follows lawlike trends that can be predicted with accuracy.
Synonyms
Relating to legal rules or the study of law
Antonyms
How Lawlike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word lawlike is made of law and -like, where law means 'rule' and -like means 'similar to'. So something lawlike follows a clear rule or shows regular, predictable patterns.