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noun
The tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain amount of success has been achieved.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A relationship between input and output, such that adding units of any one input (labour, capital etc.) to fixed amounts of the others will yield successively smaller increments of output.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: economics, sciences
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noun
a law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectiveness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: law, law of nature
History
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