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ceiling effect

ceiling effect noun: the process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect.

Noun

ceiling effect (plural ceiling effects)

  1. The process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect.
  2. 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.

Forms of ceiling effect

pluralceiling effects

Questions about ceiling effect

What does ceiling effect mean?
Ceiling effect means the process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect.
What part of speech is ceiling effect?
Ceiling effect is a noun.
What is the plural of ceiling effect?
The plural of ceiling effect is ceiling effects.

Words near ceiling effect in the dictionary

  1. ceilidhs
  2. ceilin'
  3. ceiling
  4. ceiling bird
  5. ceiling birds
  6. ceiling effect
  7. ceiling effects
  8. ceiling fan
  9. ceiling fans
  10. ceiling function
  11. ceiling functions

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