English noun: law of equal areas | |||
1. | law of equal areas (cognition) a law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times | ||
Samples | Kepler's second law means that a planet's orbital speed changes with its distance from the sun. | ||
Synonyms | Kepler's second law, law of areas | ||
Broader (hypernym) | Kepler's law, Kepler's law of planetary motion | ||