"path dependence" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "A situation in which the outcome varies with the route taken."
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          "route",
          "route"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) A situation in which the outcome varies with the route taken."
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          "_dis1": "94 6",
          "code": "sv",
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          "sense": "a situation",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "stigberoende"
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          "sense": "a situation",
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        "The theory that a technological option selected by the market need not be the technologically best one, because of the traction obtained by an early-introduced, technologically inferior alternative option."
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          "market",
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        [
          "traction",
          "traction"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, economics) The theory that a technological option selected by the market need not be the technologically best one, because of the traction obtained by an early-introduced, technologically inferior alternative option."
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          "_dis1": "16 84",
          "word": "lock-in"
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          "_dis1": "26 74",
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        "A situation in which the outcome varies with the route taken."
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        "(countable) A situation in which the outcome varies with the route taken."
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      "word": "path dependency"
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      "sense": "a situation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "stigberoende"
    },
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      "sense": "a situation",
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      "word": "spårbundenhet"
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  "word": "path dependence"
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