"ceiling effect" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: ceiling effects [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ceiling effect (plural ceiling effects)
  1. (pharmacology) The process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect. Categories (topical): Pharmacology
    Sense id: en-ceiling_effect-en-noun-8kpnbWOT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 56 44 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 75 25 Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
  2. (statistics) 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. Categories (topical): Statistics
    Sense id: en-ceiling_effect-en-noun-3ei1eyz4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics

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