English-Spanish translations for principle

• principio
  El principio es la exposición real. The principle is real exposure.
  ¿Aceptaría usted ese principio? Would you accept that principle?
  Han seguido el principio de la solidaridad. It was a principle of solidarity.
• principium

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