POWER LAW

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to a power of the stimulus intensity

Synonyms:

power law; Stevens' law; Stevens' power law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("power law" is a kind of...):

law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)

Domain category:

psychophysics (the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects)

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