Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ceiling effect

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English

Syllables: ceil-ing -ef-fect
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect.

noun

The phenomenon where an independent variable no longer has an effect on a dependent variable, or the level above which variance in an independent variable is no longer measurable.

Inflected Forms

ceiling effects (plural)

Phrases

diminishing returns

Frequently Paired Words

diminishing returns mithridatism

Questions

What does ceiling effect mean?: The process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect.

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