ceiling effect

noun

The process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect.

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Meanings

nounceiling effect (plural ceiling effects)

plural ceiling effects

  1. medicineThe process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect.
  2. mathematicsThe 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.
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