(Canada) In a multi-lane controlled-access highway or expressway system, a lane close to the median and physically separated from the outer lanes, which has fewer entrances and exits than the outer lanes and which is intended for vehicles traveling longer distances, so that these vehicles may proceed in a relatively uninterrupted manner and often at greater speed.

(law) The law as a set of specific concrete rules set down by longstanding precedents.

(singular only) The strict interpretation of the law or rules.

(statistics) The statistical tendency toward a fixed proportion in the results when an experiment is repeated a large number of times; the law of large numbers.

(statistics) The statistical tendency toward a fixed ratio in the results when an experiment is repeated a large number of times; law of averages.

The interpretation of the law towards the end of providing justice, even if this interpretation does not fall within the law as written.

On a multilane road, the lane intended or reserved for vehicles moving at faster speeds. / (figuratively, by extension) Any situation or activity where the pace is very rapid.

(economics) The market consisting of the supply of unemployed workers in relation to the demand for them.

A law that is a large-scale attempt by a government to regulate business in the interest of society at large.

A scientific generalization based upon empirical observation that is part of physics, standing in contrast to chemical law, biological law, sociological law, etc.