(software, design) a technique by which classes may achieve polymorphic behavior and code reuse by containing other classes that implement the desired functionality instead using inheritance.

(software, object-oriented programming) Synonym of Law of Demeter

(software, user interface, design) A principle that the design should match the user's experience, expectations, and mental models.

A principle in biology stating that allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of other evolutionary influences.

(logic) principle of explosion

(business) A rule according to which decisions and transactions need approval from two individuals, typically the CEO and CFO.

(ethics, philosophy) The ethical principle asserting that initiating physical force against persons or their justly acquired property, or threatening to do so, is illegitimate.

A method of interpretation of Bible prophecy in which the word day is considered to be symbolic of a year of actual time.

(evolutionary biology) A principle of asymmetry in selective pressure between predators and prey.

Alternative form of life-dinner principle