"power law" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 314:",
          "text": "the death toll from a large number of small civil wars is lower than that from a few big interstate wars, to say nothing of world wars, consistent with the power-law distribution of deadly quarrels.",
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        "A mathematical relationship in which the magnitude of something is proportional to a fixed power of the magnitude of something else (i.e. the relationship takes the form f(x)=axᵏ)."
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        "(mathematics) A mathematical relationship in which the magnitude of something is proportional to a fixed power of the magnitude of something else (i.e. the relationship takes the form f(x)=axᵏ)."
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          "word": "mocninný zákon"
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          "sense": "mathematical relationship",
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          "word": "Potenzgesetz"
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          "roman": "stepennaja zavísimostʹ",
          "sense": "mathematical relationship",
          "word": "степенная зави́симость"
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          "roman": "stepennoj zakón",
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