English-Lithuanian translations for principle

• principas
  Vienodo požiūrio principas yra socialinės Europos principas. The principle of equal treatment is a principle of social Europe.
  Taip būtų pažeistas teisinio aiškumo principas. This would violate the principle of legal certainty.
  Šis principas nediskutuotinas. This principle is not open to debate.

Definition of principle

• A fundamental assumption or guiding belief
• A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem
• Moral rule or aspect
• A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied
• A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality
• 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.there was a L'Estrange quote here, now it is at principled--

Examples

• We need some sort of principles to reason from
• The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs
• I dont doubt your principles
• You are clearly a person of principle
• Its the principle of the thing; I wont do business with someone I cant trust.
• Bernoullis Principle
• The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents two fermions from occupying the same state.
• The principle of the internal combustion engine
• Many believe that life is the result of some vital principle

Related words

• principles
• principled
• unprincipled
• subprinciple
• principle of compositionality
• principle of relativity
• principle of least astonishment
• principle of charity
• principle of equal treatment