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WEBER'S LAW

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• WEBER'S LAW (noun)
The noun WEBER'S LAW has 1 sense:

1. (psychophysics) the concept that a just-noticeable difference in a stimulus is proportional to the magnitude of the original stimulus

Familiarity information: WEBER'S LAW used as a noun is very rare.

• WEBER'S LAW (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(psychophysics) the concept that a just-noticeable difference in a stimulus is proportional to the magnitude of the original stimulus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

Weber's law explains why you don't notice your headlights are on in the daytime

Hypernyms ("Weber's law" is a kind of...):

law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)

Domain category:

psychophysics (the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects)

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