ceiling effect

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Synonyms: chilling effect

Antonyms: chilling effect

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|pharmacology}} The process of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect.
2. {{lb|en|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.

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