principle
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Definitions ofprinciple
- A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
Example: "We need some sort of principles to reason from."
- A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
Example: "The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs."
- (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect.
Example: "I don't doubt your principles."
- A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
Example: "Bernoulli's Principle"
- A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
Example: "Many believe that life is the result of some vital principle."
- A beginning.
- A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
- An original faculty or endowment.
- To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.
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