English Explanatory Dictionary

ceiling effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

ceiling effect ceiling effects

Related words

diminishing returns mithridatism
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