Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rebound effect

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English

Syllables: re-bound- -ef-fect
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The emergence or reemergence of symptoms, often with greater severity, when a medicine prescribed to suppress the original symptoms is reduced or discontinued.

noun

Synonym of takeback (“reduction in energy savings from new technologies due to increased levels of demand”).

Inflected Forms

rebound effects (plural)

Synonyms

rebound phenomenon takeback

Questions

What does rebound effect mean?: The emergence or reemergence of symptoms, often with greater severity, when a medicine prescribed to suppress the original symptoms is reduced or discontinued.

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