A decision rule whereby the decisions of the numerical majority of a group will be binding on the whole group, its parts, and each member.

(neurology) Neurons that fire together wire together.

plural of exclusionary rule

(US, law) A doctrine which requires that evidence obtained as the result of an illegal act on the part of law enforcement personnel (such as a warrantless search, or continued questioning a witness who has invoked the right of counsel) must therefore be excluded from being admitted as evidence in a trial. This rule does not apply in civil proceedings, although statutes sometime specifically provide for exclusion of such evidence.

plural of rules lawyer

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rules lawyer

plural of golden rule

(idiomatic) To be the controlling member(s) of a family, organization, or other group.

To substantially control a school administratively, financially, or in terms of its curriculum.

A rule stating that an airplane designed with the same cross-sectional area distribution in the longitudinal direction as the Sears-Haack body generates the same wave drag as this body, largely independent of the actual shape; used in aerodynamics to reduce drag, typically by narrowing the fuselage at the wing roots.