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Newton's law of motion | law | One of three laws describing the motion of bodies based on the conception of an absolute and immutable space and time; these laws held sway until Einstein's discovery of special relativity. | |
Newton's first law | Newton's law of motion | Newton's law which states that a body remains in a state of rest or uniform motion when left to itself. |
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