English Explanatory Dictionary

rebound effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The emergence or reemergence of symptoms, often with greater severity, when a medicine prescribed to suppress the original symptoms is reduced or discontinued.
  2. Synonym of takeback (“reduction in energy savings from new technologies due to increased levels of demand”).

Word forms

rebound effect rebound effects

Synonyms

rebound phenomenon takeback
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