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ceiling effects

ceiling effects is the plural of ceiling effect.

Meaning of ceiling 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.

Questions about ceiling effects

What is ceiling effects the plural of?
Ceiling effects is the plural of ceiling effect.

Words near ceiling effects in the dictionary

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

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