Term: law of equivalent proportions: (chemistry) law stating that the proportions in which two elements separately combine with a third element are also the proportions in which they combine together
Candidate hypernym: law: a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature → 1
Candidate hypernym: rain forest: a forest with heavy annual rainfall → 0
Candidate hypernym: bedwetter: someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed → 0
Candidate hypernym: preventive: remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease → 0
Candidate hypernym: episode: a part of a broadcast serial → 0
Candidate hypernym: adding machine: a calculator that performs simple arithmetic functions → 0
Candidate hypernym: jug band: a musical group that uses jugs and washboards and kazoos and other improvised instruments → 0
Candidate hypernym: money order: a written order for the payment of a sum to a named individual; obtainable and payable at a post office → 0
Candidate hypernym: lorentz force: the force experienced by a point charge moving along a wire that is in a magnetic field; the force is at right angles to both the current and the magnetic field → 0
Candidate hypernym: pittance: an inadequate payment → 0
Candidate hypernym: bar magnet: a magnet in the form of a bar with magnetic poles at each end → 0