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Noun: law of equal areas
  1. A law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times
    "law of equal areas means that a planet's orbital speed changes with its distance from the sun";
    - Kepler's second law, law of areas

Type of: Kepler's law, Kepler's law of planetary motion