Weber-fechner law

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Either of two related hypotheses in psychophysics: Weber's law and Fechner's law.
  2. 2
    (psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to the logarithm of the stimulus intensity; based on early work by E. H. Weber wordnet