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ripple effects

ripple effects is the plural of ripple effect.

Meaning of ripple effect

Noun

ripple effect (plural ripple effects)

  1. The circumstance in which one event instigates an expansive set of other events.
    • Defaults in America's mortgage lending businesses are causing a ripple effect through the major banks in other continents.

Questions about ripple effects

What is ripple effects the plural of?
Ripple effects is the plural of ripple effect.

Words near ripple effects in the dictionary

  1. ripple box
  2. ripple boxes
  3. ripple carries
  4. ripple carry
  5. ripple effect
  6. ripple effects
  7. ripple mark
  8. ripple marks
  9. ripple strip
  10. ripple voltage
  11. ripple voltages

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