As nouns,
distribution law is a hypernym of
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law; that is,
distribution law is a
word with a broader meaning than
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law:
- Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law: (physics) a law expressing the distribution of energy among the molecules of a gas in thermal equilibrium
- distribution law: (chemistry) the total energy in an assembly of molecules is not distributed equally but is distributed around an average value according to a statistical distribution