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principal (PRIN suh puhl) (adjective)
1. Most important or influential: Gregory was the principal financial backer of the railroad project.
2. A reference to the leading performer in a play or movie: Abigail had the principal role in the newly discovered play by Shakespeare.
3. Relating to a primary source of information: The principal source for Shawn's research was the letters and documents which were located in the library archives.
principal (PRIN suh puhl) (noun)
1. The individual who has significant authority and leadership in an educational institution: Mildred's aunt was the principal at the local high school for almost ten years before she retired.
2. Money that is used to fund an undertaking, not including interest accrued: Walter has his principal in the bank and he is using it to pay his bills and to buy items that he needs.
principle (PRIN suh puhl) (noun)
1. A comprehensive code of conduct: The main rule or principle of the company was declared to be "integrity".
2. An underlying quality or characteristic of something: The famous writer had a principle which involved doing careful research before starting work on a novel.
3. Adherence or devotion to appropriate behavior: Pete was described as a man of principle in terms of his business transactions.
4. The law of science that underlies the operation of an artificial device: The waterwheel operated on the principle that falling water would hit the paddles and turn the wheel.

The professor said that his main code of conduct, or his principal principle, was to make sure that his students would have every opportunity to improve their vocabulary skills.

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principle (s) (noun), principles (pl)
1. An accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: "She was a person of good moral principles."
2. A fundamental, primary, or general law or truth from which others are derived; such as, the principles of physics.
3. A fundamental doctrine or tenet.
4. Principles, a personal or specific basis of conduct or management: "He was known as someone who always stirved to adhere to his principles."
5. Guiding sense of the requirements and obligations of right conduct; a person of principle.
6. A rule or law exemplified in natural phenomena, the construction or operation of a machine, the working of a system, or the like.
7. Etymology: from Latin principium, principia, "a beginning, first part"; from princeps, "first, chief".

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This entry is located in the following units: cap-, cip-, capt-, cept-, ceive, -ceipt, -ceit, -cipient (page 11) prin- + (page 1)
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(Greek > Latin: a suffix; one who; forms nouns from verbs in -ize; nouns denoting the adherent of a certain doctrine, principle, or custom)
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(Latin: first principle, rudiment, primitive form)
(Greek: idea, form, appearance; class, species, model; general principle)
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anthropic principle (s) (noun), anthropic principles (pl)
1. A reasoning in cosmology which states that the present existence of life on earth implies certain limits on the ways that the early universe could have evolved.
2. The assertion that any life existing in a universe will impose conditions that significantly restrict the physical properties of that universe.
cosmological principle
The assumption made in most theories of cosmology that the universe is homogeneous of a large scale.
electrostatic-convergence principle
The principle of electron-beam convergence through the use of an electrostatic field.
This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 86)
ionic strength principle
The concept that the amount of ionic activity in an electrolytic solution is based on the charge on the ions present rather than on their particular chemical natures.
This entry is located in the following unit: ion, ion- + (page 6)
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reality principle
An awareness of the demands of the environment and the need for an adjustment of behavior to meet those demands, expressed primarily by the renunciation of immediate gratification of instinctual pleasures to obtain long-term and future goals.

In psychoanalysis this function is held to be performed by the ego.

This entry is located in the following unit: real- (page 2)
unified principle
The statement that when an isolated system performs a process after the removal of a series of internal constraints, it will reach a unique state of equilibrium.
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accelerator principle
An investment that depends on the growth of output which implies that an investment will be unstable.

Investment will fall simply because output grows at a slower rate. For investment to remain stable, output growth must be constant.

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anthropic principle
The assertion that the presence of intelligent life on earth places limits on the many ways the universe could have developed and could have caused the conditions of temperature that prevail today.