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Law Of Diminishing Returns

Definition: Law Of Diminishing Returns

Law Of Diminishing Returns

Noun

1. A law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectiveness.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Law Of Diminishing Returns

DomainDefinitions

Economics

A general rule that as more factors of production are added to the existing factors, so the amount they produce is proportionately smaller. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Law Of Diminishing Returns

Language Translations for "law of diminishing returns"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

wet van de afnemende meeropbrengst. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vähenevän lisätuoton laki. (various references)

   

French

  

loi du rendement non-proportionnel, loi du rendement décroissant. (various references)

   

German

  

Gesetz vom abnehmenden Ertragszuwachs. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

awlay ofay iminishingday eturnsray

   

Portuguese

  

lei dos rendimentos não proporcionais, lei dos rendimentos decrescentes. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ley de disminución del rendimiento. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lagen om sjunkande avkastning. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Law Of Diminishing Returns

Misspellings

"Law Of Diminishing Returns" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: law of diminidhing returns. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Alternative Orthography: Law Of Diminishing Returns


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 77      4F 66      44 69 6D 69 6E 69 73 68 69 6E 67      52 65 74 75 72 6E 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01110111 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01000100 01101001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01010010 01100101 01110100 01110101 01110010 01101110 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#119 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#32 &#68 &#105 &#109 &#105 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#104 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#82 &#101 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#110 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 0077      004F 0066      0044 0069 006D 0069 006E 0069 0073 0068 0069 006E 0067      0052 0065 0074 0075 0072 006E 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4667892497223875797580758574758073252718687848085

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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