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Definition: Law Of Diminishing Returns |
Law Of Diminishing ReturnsNoun1. 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. |
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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) |
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| 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 lei dos rendimentos não proporcionais, lei dos rendimentos decrescentes. (various references) ley de disminución del rendimiento. (various references) lagen om sjunkande avkastning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"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). | |
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 |
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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)L a w   O f   D i m i n i s h i n g   R e t u r n s |
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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