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Princesse lointaine A princess lointaine or princesse lointaine, (in French, "distant princess") is a stock character from medieval romances. The romantic interest of many knights errant, she was usually a woman of much higher birth, often far distant from the knight, and usually wealthier than he was, beautiful, and of admirable character.
PrincessPlus PrincessPlus, also known as “The Brighter Princess Cut,” is one of a number of new branded diamond cuts that have been developed over the last decade. The diamond is technically referred to as a modified princess cut.
Princeton 56ers Princeton-56ers are an American soccer team, founded in 2005 through the partnership of two long-standing soccer associations in southern Wisconsin, the Madison 56ers and Princeton SC. The team is a member of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Midwest Division against teams from Detroit, Milwaukee, Goshen, Ind.
Princeton collection The Princeton Collection is a housing development located in northern Plainsboro New Jersey. Over the past few years it has become one of the centers of activity for teenagers in West Windsor and Plainsboro despite its great distance from the center of either town.
Princeton Devil Rays The Princeton Devil Rays are a minor league baseball team in Princeton, West Virginia, USA. They are a Rookie-level team in the Appalachian League and have been a farm team of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays since 1998.
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program was established at Princeton University in 1979 by Robert G. Jahn, then Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice.
Princeton Evangelical Fellowship The Princeton Evangelical Fellowship is a non-denominational Christian ministry on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. It was founded by the Reverend Donald Fullerton in 1931, after health troubles prevented his return to mission work in Afghanistan, and consisted primarily of small Bible studies under his more than forty years as director of the work.
Princeton Junction (NJT station) Princeton Junction is an Amtrak and New Jersey Transit rail station on the Northeast Corridor located in Princeton Junction, an area within West Windsor Township. On Amtrak and NJT tickets its abbreviation is PJC.
Princeton Law School The law school at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) began instruction in 1847 as a modest effort consisting of three professors. Only seven students would obtain a law degree before the school closed in 1852.
Princeton Nassoons The Princeton Nassoons are an all-male a cappella singing group drawn from the ranks of Princeton University undergraduates known for its five-part harmony. The group has been self-selecting (and self-directing) since 1941.
Princeton Newport Partners Princeton/Newport Partners was an early alternative investment management company founding by pioneering mathematical financier Edward O. Thorp in late 1974, assuming the instruments of an earlier venture, Convertible Hedge Associates.
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory for plasma physics and nuclear fusion science located just north-east of Princeton University's main campus in Princeton, New Jersey. Its primary mission is to develop the scientific understanding and the key innovations which will lead to an attractive fusion energy source.
Princeton Principles The Princeton Principles is a policy paper made up of Ten Principles on Marriage and the Public Good. It was released in May 2006 as the culmination of discussions among scholars that began at a 2004 meeting in Princeton, New Jersey.
Princeton Prize in Race Relations An awards program sponsored by Princeton University and principally undertaken by its alumni, the Princeton Prize in Race Relations (honors high school age students who have done notable work in advancing the cause of race relations]. The mission of the Princeton Prize is: “To promote harmony, respect, and understanding among people of different races by identifying and recognizing high school age students whose efforts have had a significant, positive effect on race relations in their schools or communities.
Princeton Progressive Nation The Princeton Progressive Nation is a monthly journal published at Princeton University. The publication is devoted to providing a forum for liberal, moderate and progressive political thought on campus by writing on current events that effect the local community, nation and the world.
Princeton Project The Princeton Project on National Security is a three-year, bipartisan initiative to develop a sustainable and effective national security strategy for the United States of America. It brought together leading thinkers on national security from government, academia, business, and the non-profit sector to analyze key issues and develop innovative responses to a range of national security threats.
Princeton Project 55 Princeton Project 55 is a nonprofit organization established by members of the Class of 1955 at Princeton University to mobilize alumni and students, and others who share their concerns, to provide civic leadership and to develop and implement solutions to systemic problems that affect the public interest. It was born of the realization that there is a vast untapped resource, available for the public good, among groups of college alumni.
Princeton Public Library The Princeton Public Library, a joint library chartered to serve Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, NJ first opened to the public in 1909. Since that time the library has had four locations –historic Bainbridge House on Nassau Street (current home of the Princeton Historical Society), a 1966 building at 65 Witherspoon Street that was demolished in 2002, a library at 301 North Harrison Street that served as temporary quarters during the construction of the new 58,000 square foot, state-of-the-art library, the George and Estelle Sands Library Building, opened at 65 Witherspoon Street in April 2004.
Princeton Regional Schools Princeton Regional Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township, New Jersey, United States. Students from Cranbury Township attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.
Princeton Reunions Every year on the weekend before Commencement, Princeton University holds the most well-attended college reunion in the world. Known simply as "Reunions", this event brings back to campus upwards of 20,000 alumni, and at least that many guests, for a four-day celebration featuring large outdoor tents, elaborate costumes, sporting events, alumni and faculty presentations, fireworks, bands from rock to swing, and oceans of beer.
Princeton Sound Lab The Princeton Sound Lab is a research laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University, in collaboration with the Department of Music. The Sound Lab conducts research in a variety of areas in computer music, including physical modeling, audio analysis, audio synthesis, programming languages for audio and multimedia, interactive controller design, psychoacoustics, and real-time systems for composition and performance.
Princeton theologians The Princeton theology is a tradition of conservative, Christian, Reformed and Presbyterian theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The appellation has special reference to certain theologians, from Archibald Alexander to B.
Princeton Tiger Magazine Princeton Tiger or Tiger Magazine is a college humor magazine published by Princeton University undergraduates since 1882. A number of its writers and editors later went on to notable literary careers, including Booth Tarkington, F.
Princeton Tigertones The Princeton Tigertones are an internationally-known all-male collegiate a cappella group from Princeton University. The group was founded in 1946 (legend has it, under a table in the "tap room" of Princeton, New Jersey's Nassau Inn), and since then has produced twenty-eight albums.
Princeton Tower Club Princeton Tower Club is one of the ten eating clubs at Princeton University, and one of only five clubs (along with The Ivy Club, University Cottage Club, Cap and Gown Club, and the Tiger Inn) to choose its members through a selective process called bicker. Tower is located at 13 Prospect Avenue between the now-defunct Campus and Cannon Clubs, and currently has a membership of approximately 190 undergraduates.
Princeton Triangle Club The Princeton Triangle Club is a theatre troupe at Princeton University. Founded in 1891, it is the oldest touring collegiate musical-comedy troupe in the United States, and the only college group that takes an original student-written musical on a national tour every year.
Princeton University Players The Princeton University Players (aka PUP) was established at Princeton University in 1987 to produce the original musical One Fine Day. In the ensuing years, the organization languished as an ad-hoc theater outfit, producing a sporadic show or two outside of the Princeton theater establishment.
Princeton University Press Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections, both formal and informal, to Princeton University. Its fundamental mission is to disseminate scholarship through books, journals, and other media within academia and society at large.
Princeton-by-the-Sea Princeton-by-the-Sea is an unincorporated community on the coast of San Mateo County, California. Sometimes, especially locally, called Princeton, this area was inhabited by Ohlone tribes in pre-Columbian times.
Princetown (HM Prison) Princetown Prison is a correctional facility in Princetown, Lydford. Built between 1806 and 1809, the prison was contructed from a local granite quarry by French prisoners which would serve as a prisoner of war camp during the Napoleonic wars and the War of 1812 (during which over 200 American prisoners died) until closing in 1816.
Princeville, North Carolina Princeville is a town in Edgecombe County, North Carolina and the oldest town incorporated by African-Americans in the United States. It was established by freed slaves after the Civil War and incorporated in 1885.
Principal (law) In Commercial Law, a Principal is a person, fictitious or otherwise, who authorises an Agent to act to create one or more legal relationships with a Third Party. This branch of law is called Agency and relies on the common law proposition, qui facit per alium, facit per se: this is Latin for he or she who acts through another, acts personally and it is a parallel concept to vicarious liability and strict liability in which one person is held liable in Criminal Law or Tort for the acts or omissions of another.
Principal bundle In mathematics, a principal G-bundle is a special kind of fiber bundle for which the fibers are all G-torsors (also known as principal homogeneous spaces) for the group action of a topological group G. Principal G-bundles are G-bundles in the sense that the group G also serves as the structure group of the bundle.
Principal components analysis In statistics, principal components analysis (PCA) is a technique for simplifying a dataset, by reducing multidimensional datasets to lower dimensions for analysis."Principal component analysis is a method often used for reducing multidimensional datasets to lower dimensions for analysis.
Principal curvature In differential geometry, the two principal curvatures at a given point of a differentiable surface in Euclidean space are the minimum and maximum of the curvatures at that point of all the curves on the surface passing through the point. Here the curvature of a curve is taken to be the reciprocal of the radius of the osculating circle.
Principal edwards magic theatre A 14 member communal performance art collective of musicians, poets, dancers, sound and lighting technicians originally formed at Exeter University in the late 1960s, later based at a farmhouse in Kettering, Northamptonshire, Principal Edwards were signed to John Peels Dandelion Records, releasing a single "The Ballad of a Big Girl Now" in 1969 followed by two albums for the label, "Soundtrack" and "The Asmoto Running Band", the second of which was produced by Nick Mason of Pink Floyd.
Principal Feast Principal Feasts are a type of observance in the Church of England. Along with Principal Holy Days, with which they share equal status, they are considered to be the most significant type of observance, the others being Festivals, Lesser Festivals, and Commemorations.
Principal Galaxies Catalogue The Catalogue of Principal Galaxies (PGC) is an astronomical catalogue published in 1989 that lists B1950 and J2000 equatorial coordinates and cross-identifications for 73,197 galaxies. The 40,932 coordinates have standard deviations smaller than 10″.
Principal homogeneous space In mathematics, a principal homogeneous space, or G-torsor, for a group G is a set X on which G acts freely and transitively. That is, X is a homogeneous space for G such that the stabilizer of any point is trivial.
Principal Holy Day Principal Holy Days are a type of observance in the Church of England. Along with Principal Feasts, with which they share equal status while lacking a festal character, they are considered to be the most significant type of observance, the others being Festivals, Lesser Festivals, and Commemorations.
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation is the title of the chief executive of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Prior to removal, a constitutional republic comprising three departments, legislative, executive, and judicial, had been formed by the Cherokee Nation.
Principal ideal theorem In mathematics, the principal ideal theorem of class field theory, a branch of algebraic number theory, is the statement that for any algebraic number field K and any ideal I of the ring of integers of K, if L is the Hilbert class field of K, then
Principal officials of Hong Kong Principals officials (), as according to the Basic Law, are government officials that are nominated by the Chief Executive and appointed by the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China. They include secretaries of departments and secretaries of policy bureaux.
Principal Officials Accountability System Principal Officials Accountability System (, often abbreviated to POAS, commonly known as 高官問責制 or 問責制) was introduced by Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa in July 2002, the beginning of his second term, as part of his government reform programme. The main purpose for the creation of this system was to ward off public complaints that he leads a disunited and weak government.
Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister The Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (PPS to the PM) is a senior official of the British Civil Service who acts as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The holder of this office was formerly the head of the Prime Minister's Office but is now subordinate to the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff (Jonathan Powell).
Principal Secretary (Canada) In Canada the Principal Secretary is a senior aide, often the most senior political aide, to a head of government. Formerly the position of Principal Secretary was the most senior in the Canadian Prime Minister's Office though more recently it is second to the Chief of Staff.
Principal trade A principal trade occurs when a brokerage house buys securities on the secondary market with the express strategy to hold long enough for a price appreciation. At that point the broker sells retails to the end use and gains appreciation plus commission.
Principal-agent problem In economics, the principal-agent problem treats the difficulties that arise under conditions of incomplete and asymmetric information when a principal hires an agent. Various mechanisms may be used to try to align the interests of the agent with those of the principal, such as piece rates/commissions, profit sharing, efficiency wages, the agent posting a bond, or fear of firing.
Principal, Cape Verde Principal (Portuguese meaning principal Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Prinsipal, also in the SĂŁo Vicente Crioulo), is a village located in the northcentral part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, it is located north-northwest of the island capital of Praia and southeast of Tarrafal. The village is linked with road linking with the Tarrafal-Assomada Road as well as the Tarrafal-Praia Road.
Principalities (comics) The Principalities are a fictional kind of supernatural being featured in several Marvel Comics stories. They were first mentioned in writer Stan Lee's run of Doctor Strange stories in the Strange Tales comic book series in the 1960’s and developed later by Lee and other writers.
Principality A principality (or princedom) is a monarchical feudatory or sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a monarch with the title of prince or princess, or (in the widest sense) a monarch with another title within the generic use of the term prince.
Principality of Abkhazia The Principality of Abkhazia emerged as a separate feudal entity in the 15th-16th centuries, amid the civil wars in the Kingdom of Georgia that concluded with the dissolution of the unified Georgian monarchy. The principality retained a degree of autonomy under the Ottoman, and then the Russian rule, and was fully absorbed into the Tsarist empire in 1864.
Principality of Ansbach The Principality of Ansbach () or Brandenburg-Ansbach was a reichsfrei principality in the Holy Roman Empire centered on the Bavarian city of Ansbach. The ruling Hohenzollern princes of the land were known as margraves, as the principality was a margravate (but not a march).
Principality of Auersperg —Auersperg was a German Princely family, which held estates in Austria and Thengen (located in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, north of Schaffhausen, Switzerland.) The Principality of Auersperg emerged from the earlier County of Auersperg of the Junior Line of the Junior Line of the Pancrazische Branch in 1653.
Principality of Bayreuth The Principality of Bayreuth () or Brandenburg-Bayreuth was a reichsfrei principality in the Holy Roman Empire centered on the Bavarian city of Bayreuth. Until 1604 it was known as the Principality of Kulmbach ) or Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
Principality of Capua The Principality of Capua was a Lombard state in Southern Italy, usually de facto independent, but under the varying suzerainty of Western and Eastern Roman Empires. It was originally a gastaldate, then a county, within the principality of Salerno.
Principality of Catalonia Catalonia , or the Principality of Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya or or Principat de Catalunya ; Spanish: Cataluña or Principado de Cataluña; Aranese: Catalonha or Principautat de Catalonha ; French: Catalogne or Principauté de Catalogne), is a historic country in southern Europe, embracing a territory now situated in the north-east of Spain and an adjoining portion of southern France.
Principality of Estland The Principality of Estland (Low German: Fürstenthüm Ehstland; Danish: Fyrstedømme Estland; Old Estonian Ma-walla Würsti-rikk; Russian: Княжество Эстляндия), more commonly known as The Principality of Estonia, was an independent principality in Northern Europe located along the Muscovian Tsardom between the Gulf of Finland and Livonia since May 3, 1561 until 1578.
Principality of Freedonia The Principality of Freedonia was a micronation based on libertarian principles. It was supposedly established as a "hypothetical project" by a group of US teenagers in 1992, before becoming a new country project in 1997 and attempting to purchase territory.
Principality of Galilee The Principality of Galilee was one of the four major seigneuries of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, according to 13th-century commentator John of Ibelin. The direct holdings of the principality were around Tiberias, in Galilee proper, but with all its vassals, the lordship covered all Galilee and southern Phoenicia (today Lebanon).
Principality of Göttingen The Principality of Göttingen was a subdivision of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire with Göttingen as its capital. It was split off from the Principality of Brunswick in 1279 in the course of an estate division among members of the House of Welf.
Principality of Karvuna The Principality of Karvuna ( ) was a 14th-century quasi-independent state in the region of modern Dobruja. It emerged as a polity under the influence of the Byzantine Empire, and had a population probably composed of Vlachs, Slavs, Greeks, Gagauz and Tatars.
Principality of Krk The Principality of Krk was a semi-independent principality on the Croatian-Adriatic island of Krk that existed from 1451-1480 during the late middle ages. Previous to the principaly's foundation, Krk and the surrounding lands were ruled by several Frankopan princes.
Principality of Leyen The Principality of Leyen was a Napoleonic German state which existed 1806 - 1814 in Hohengeroldseck, in the west of modern Baden-WĂĽrttemberg. The family of Leyen had acquired many districts in western Germany, and eventually these were inherited by the Leyen line of Counts at Adendorf.
Principality of Nitra The Principality of Nitra or Nitrian Principality ( Slovak: Nitrianske knieĹľatstvo, Nitriansko, Nitrava) was a principality in what is today Slovakia and some adjacent territories in present-day Hungary in the Middle Ages. Nitra was its capital.
Principality of Outer Baldonia The Principality of Outer Baldonia is a now defunct micronation whose territorial pretensions comprised the roughly 4 acres of Outer Bald Tusket Island 8 nautical miles off the southern tip of Nova Scotia (Canada).
Principality of Polatsk Duchy of Polatsk or Principality of Polatsk (Belarusian: Полацкае княства , Russian: Полоцкое княжество) was a medieval principality of the Early East Slavs, one of the constituent principalities within the Kievan Rus. It was established around the ancient town of Polatsk by the tribal union of Krivichs, and existed from the 9th to the 13th centuries.
Principality of Ruthenia The Principality of Ruthenia (Red Ruthenian: Ruśke Knjaziwstwo, Ruthenian: Kniastwa Ruskaje, Polish: Księstwo Ruskie) was a Ruthenian state established in 1658. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth borders shifted with various wars and treaties, sometimes several times in a decade, especially in the eastern and southern regions.
Principality of Salerno The Lombard Principality of Salerno was a South Italian state, centred on the port city of Salerno, formed out of the Principality of Benevento after a decade-long civil war in 851. Through its origins, it owed allegiance to the Western Emperor, but throughout its history was practically independent and even entered into vassalage of the Byzantine Empire at times.
Principality of Serbia The Serbian Principality (Кнежевина Србија) was a state in the Balkans that came into existence as a result of First Serbian Uprising and Second Serbian Uprising between 1804 and 1816. Despite serious oppression and revenge by the Ottoman authorities (that was especially evident between the revolutions), first Karadjordje and then Milos Obrenovic, the revolutionary leaders, have succeeded in their goal to liberate Serbia.
Principality of Trubetsk The Principality of Trubetsk (Ruthenian: Kniastwa Trubetskie) was a small, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by The Grand Duchy of Lithuania to its west and by Muscovy to its east. The Principality of Trubetsk was a principality within modern Bryansk Oblast, about 50 miles (80 kilometres) southwest of Briańsk.
Principality of Ulek In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Principality of Ulek is a political state of the Flanaess, and one of the three Ulek States (the other two being the County of Ulek, and the Duchy of Ulek).
Principality of Wales The Principality of Wales was formed by the Treaty of Montgomery in 1267 between Henry III of England and Llywelyn ap Gruffydd the prince of Gwynedd. Most of the petty lordships and cantrefi of North, West and central Wales paid homage to the Prince of Wales (the title formally given to Llywelyn in 1267) who would then make homage himself to the King of England as his vassal.
Principality of Zeta Zeta was an independent principality that succeeded the ancient Kingdom of Duklja(Latin: Doclea) for the Serbian territories roughly encompassing present-day Republic of Montenegro. It was named after the river of Zeta.
Principate The Principate is, according to its etymological derivation from the Latin word princeps, meaning chief or first, the political regime dominated by such a political leader, whether or not he is formally head of state and/or head of government.
Principense language The Principense language, called lunguyê ("Language of the Island") by its speakers, is spoken in a community of couple of thousand people in São Tomé and Príncipe, but today is mostly spoken by some elderly women, almost all of them on the island of Príncipe. Today, most of the community in the island speaks Portuguese, and some also speak Forro.
Principes de classement des documents musicaux The Principles of Classification of Musical Documents (PCDM), is a classification developed in French public libraries since 1983, especially for documents related to music, according to a scheme more convenient than the Dewey Classification, regarding the needs of the users in a public library.
Principia Discordia Principia Discordia is a sacred text of the Discordian religion written by Greg Hill (Malaclypse The Younger) and Kerry Thornley (Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst). It was originally published under the title "Principia Discordia or How The West Was Lost With Explanations to Yellow Pages Use" in a limited edition of 5 copies in 1965.
Principia Mathematica The Principia Mathematica is a 3-volume work on the foundations of mathematics, written by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell and published in 1910–1913. It is an attempt to derive all mathematical truths from a well-defined set of axioms and inference rules in symbolic logic.
Principle (disambiguation) The term law is often used to refer to universal principles that describe the fundamental nature of something, to universal properties and relationships between things, or to descriptions that purport to explain these principles and relationships.
Principle (chemistry) In modern chemistry, principles are the constituents of a substance, specifically those that produce a certain quality or effect in the substance, such as a bitter principle, which is any one of the numerous compounds having a bitter taste.
Principle of compositionality In mathematics, semantics, and philosophy of language, the Principle of Compositionality is the principle that the meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meanings of its constituent expressions and the rules used to combine them.
Principle of conferral The principle of conferral is a fundamental principle of European Union law. According to this principle, the EU is a union of member states, and all its competences are voluntarily conferred on it by its member states.
Principle of consent Principle of consent is a term used in the context of debate on a United Ireland, which states that Northern Ireland's constitutional status (as part of the United Kingdom) cannot change without majority support in Northern Ireland. It is a central theme in the Northern Ireland peace process and was enshrined in the Good Friday Agreement of 10 April 1998.
Principle of contradiction The Principle of contradiction (principium contradictionis in Latin) is, in logic, the term applied to the second of the three primary laws of thought. The oldest statement of the law is that contradictory statements cannot both at the same time be true, e.
Principle of corresponding states The principle (law) of corresponding states can, most generally, be summarized as unity in diversity. Material constants that vary for each type of material are eliminated, in a recast reduced form of a constitutive equation.
Principle of distributivity The principle of distributivity states that the algebraic distributive law is valid for classical logic, where both logical conjunction and logical disjunction are distributive over each other. The principle is valid in classical logic, but invalid in quantum logic.
Principle of double effect The principle of double effect (PDE) or doctrine of double effect (DDE), sometimes simply called double effect for short, is a thesis in ethics, usually attributed to Thomas Aquinas. The principle seeks to explain under what circumstances one may act in a way that has both good and bad consequences (a "double effect").
Principle of explosion The principle of explosion (also known as ex falso quodlibet, ex falso sequitur quodlibet (EFSQ for short), ex contradictione (sequitur) quodlibet (ECQ for short), and ex falso/contradictione (sequitur) aliquot) is the law of classical logic and a few other systems, for example, intuitionistic logic, according to which "anything follows from a contradiction". In symbolic terms, the principle of explosion can be expressed in the following way:
Principle of fast arrival In the game of bridge the Principle of fast arrival denotes the partnership understanding that in game forcing auctions, bidding game directly shows a minimum hand for your previous bidding, whilst making a lower (forcing) bid shows extras.
Principle of faunal succession The principle of faunal succession holds that different strata contain particular types of fossilised flora and fauna, and that these fossil forms succeed each other in a specific and predictable order that can be identified over wide distances. A fossilised Neanderthal bone will never be found in the same stratum as a fossilised Megalosaurus, for example, because the two species evolved in different geological periods, separated by many millions of years.
Principle of good enough The principle of good enough (sometimes abbreviated to POGE) is a rule for software and systems design. It favours quick-and-simple (but potentially extensible) designs over elaborate systems designed by committees.
Principle of charity In philosophy and rhetoric, the principle of charity is an approach to understanding a speaker's statements by rendering the best, strongest possible interpretation of an argument's meaning. In its narrowest sense, the goal of this methodological principle is to help keep people who are trying to understand or evaluate the truth of an argument from introducing a logical fallacy or other error into an argument that is not inherent to it.
Principle of inertia (physics) The principle of inertia is one of the fundamental principles of classical physics used to describe the normal motion of matter, and how it is affected by applied forces. The concept of inertia is today most commonly described using Isaac Newton's first law of motion, which is often paraphrased as:
Principle of lateral continuity The principle of lateral continuity states that layers of sediment initially extend laterally in all directions; in other words, they are laterally continuous. As a result, rocks that are otherwise similar, but are now separated by a valley or other erosional feature, can be assumed to be originally continuous.
Principle of law A principle of law is a codified philosophical statement ("principle"), which represents the core of a law as found in a constitution, in precedent, or else is interpreted to arise from either or both.
Principle of least action In physics, the principle of least action or principle of stationary action is a variational principle which, when applied to the action of a mechanical system, can be used to obtain the equations of motion for that system. The principle led to the development of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of classical mechanics.
Principle of least astonishment In user interface design, programming language design, and ergonomics, the principle (or rule or law) of least astonishment (or surprise) states that, when two elements of an interface conflict or are ambiguous, the behaviour should be that which will least surprise the human user or programmer at the time the conflict arises, because the least surprising behavior will usually be the correct one.
Principle of least effort The principle of least effort is a theory of user behavior held among researchers in the field of library and information science. The principle states that an information-seeking client will tend to use the most convenient search method, in the least exacting mode available.
Principle of least privilege In computer science and other fields the principle of minimal privilege, also known as the principle of least privilege or just least privilege, requires that in a particular abstraction layer of a computing environment every module (such as a process, a user or a program on the basis of the layer we are considering) must be able to access only such information and resources that are necessary to its legitimate purpose.

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