What is the meaning of Dalton's law?

noun

• Chemistry) law stating that when two elements can combine to form more than one compound the amounts of one of them that combines with a fixed amount of the other will exhibit a simple multiple relation.
  • synonyms: law of multiple proportions
• Chemistry and physics. ( law stating that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases equals the sum of the partial pressures of the gases in the mixture; the pressure of a gas in a mixture equals the pressure it would exert if it occupied the same volume alone at the same temperature).
  • synonyms: Dalton's law of partial pressures, law of partial pressures