(law) The area of law pertaining to passing on property, titles, debts, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual.

The claim that adding manpower to a late software development project makes it even later.

(law) The area of law pertaining actions that unfairly cause personal loss or harm, and result in liability for the person who commits the actions.

(software engineering) A claim about software development that states that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”.

Alternative form of Linus' Law

Alternative spelling of Sod's law

(phonology) A dissimilatory phonological process in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit, according to which an aspirated consonant loses its aspiration if it is followed by another aspirated consonant in the next syllable.

(linguistics) One of the basic principles describing the position of words and phrases in a sentence, stating that a shorter phrase will precede a longer phrase where possible.

(phonology) A Proto-Indo-European phonological rule that governs the word-final sequences of a vowel, followed firstly by a semivowel or a laryngeal and then by a nasal. Such sequences are simplified so that laryngeals and semivowels are dropped, with compensatory lengthening of a preceding vowel.

(computing) The rule of thumb that there should be at least one CPU for each user of a system.