pauli exclusion principle(n = noun.cognition) exclusion principle - no two electrons or protons or neutrons in a given system can be in states characterized by the same set of quantum numbers;
is a kind of law, law of nature

pauli exclusion principle, n. Physics the assertion that no two fermions can have the same quantum number.

Etymology:
W. Pauli, Austrian physicist d. 1958

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