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path dependency

path dependency is the alternative form of path dependence.

Meaning of path dependence

Noun

path dependence (usually uncountable, plural path dependences)

  1. (countable, usually) A situation in which the outcome varies with the route taken.
  2. (usually) The theory that a technological option selected by the market need not be the technologically best one, because of the traction obtained by an early-introduced, technologically inferior alternative option.

Forms of path dependency

pluralpath dependencies

Questions about path dependency

What is path dependency the alternative form of?
Path dependency is the alternative form of path dependence.

Words near path dependency in the dictionary

  1. path cascade
  2. path cascades
  3. path dependence
  4. path dependences
  5. path dependencies
  6. path dependency
  7. path integral formalism
  8. path length
  9. path lengths
  10. path loss
  11. path losses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: path dependency (page history and authors); path dependence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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