"network effect" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company",
          "text": "Aided by preferential attachment and network effects (the phenomenon of a good or service becoming more valuable the more people who use it), a handful of winners emerge, overshadowing other available options.",
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        "The higher growth rate of businesses with higher market share in those segments of economy in which the value of a product or service depends on the compounding effects of the number of existing users of the product or a service, as is the case with telephone networks."
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          "business",
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        [
          "market share",
          "market share"
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          "segment",
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        [
          "economy",
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          "product",
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        "(economics) The higher growth rate of businesses with higher market share in those segments of economy in which the value of a product or service depends on the compounding effects of the number of existing users of the product or a service, as is the case with telephone networks."
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "higher growth rate",
          "word": "網絡效應"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "wǎngluò xiàoyìng",
          "sense": "higher growth rate",
          "word": "网络效应"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "higher growth rate",
          "word": "verkostovaikutus"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "higher growth rate",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "effet de réseau"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "higher growth rate",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Netzwerkeffekt"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "network effect"
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    }
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  "word": "network effect"
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          "ref": "2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company",
          "text": "Aided by preferential attachment and network effects (the phenomenon of a good or service becoming more valuable the more people who use it), a handful of winners emerge, overshadowing other available options.",
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      ],
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        "The higher growth rate of businesses with higher market share in those segments of economy in which the value of a product or service depends on the compounding effects of the number of existing users of the product or a service, as is the case with telephone networks."
      ],
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          "growth",
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        ],
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          "economy"
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        "(economics) The higher growth rate of businesses with higher market share in those segments of economy in which the value of a product or service depends on the compounding effects of the number of existing users of the product or a service, as is the case with telephone networks."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "economics",
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "higher growth rate",
      "word": "網絡效應"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wǎngluò xiàoyìng",
      "sense": "higher growth rate",
      "word": "网络效应"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "higher growth rate",
      "word": "verkostovaikutus"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "higher growth rate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "effet de réseau"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "higher growth rate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Netzwerkeffekt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "network effect"
}