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network effects

network effects is the plural of network effect.

Meaning of network effect

Noun

network effect (plural network effects)

  1. The higher growth rate of businesses with higher market share in those segments of economy in which the value of a product or service depends on the compounding effects of the number of existing users of the product or a service, as is the case with telephone networks.
    • Aided by preferential attachment and network effects (the phenomenon of a good or service becoming more valuable the more people who use it), a handful of winners emerge, overshadowing other available options.2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN

Questions about network effects

What is network effects the plural of?
Network effects is the plural of network effect.

Words near network effects in the dictionary

  1. network adapter
  2. network adapters
  3. network card
  4. network cards
  5. network effect
  6. network effects
  7. network engineer
  8. network engineers
  9. network externalities
  10. network externality
  11. network interface card

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