adv
To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
n
The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
n
The process of testing a strategy, model etc. using data from a previous time
adj
Not progressive; concerned with the past rather than the present or future.
n
Business aside from the main business.
v
To correspond, concur, or agree.
adj
Acting in an indirect way.
n
(obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
adj
Providing an end to something; decisive.
n
A result of actions, especially if such a result is unwanted or unpleasant.
n
The state in which a series of repeated actions have an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects; noted especially in the repeated administration of drugs or repeated consumption of trace elements or chemicals that show no immediate effect.
n
(sciences) A side effect, especially a positive one in pharmacology.
v
(obsolete) To bring to an end; to determine.
n
(philosophy) The situation where an otherwise legitimate act (for example, relieving a terminally ill patient's pain) may also cause an effect one would otherwise be obliged to avoid (e.g. sedation and a slightly shortened life).
n
The result or outcome of a cause.
adj
Involving or relating to escalation.
n
(business) The idea that production costs decrease by a constant percentage whenever production doubles, attributed to improvements in performance as a result of frequent repetition.
n
The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
n
Alternative form of flow-on effect [The indirect effect of an action that arises when the immediate result causes similar effects in additional settings.]
n
The indirect effect of an action that arises when the immediate result causes similar effects in additional settings.
v
To test a mathematical model by using data from a past event.
n
An analysis or study which describes the expected effects of a policy, project, or action being contemplated by a business or government organization.
adj
Abbreviation of indirect. [Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result]
adj
(law) Expressed during a legal action that awaits final decision.
n
(mathematics) A ratio etc. in which the antecedents and consequents are switched.
n
(Britain) A secondary, often unintended effect; a repercussion, chain reaction.
n
(US regional) Consequence; significant change in or effect on a situation or state; difference.
adv
By installments, payments over a period of time.
n
The phenomenon whereby the premature announcement of a new product leads customers to cancel or defer orders for the existing product, since it will soon become obsolete.
n
A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
n
An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a situation.
n
A consequence or ensuing result of some action.
n
The condition of being, or the extent to which something is residual
n
(archaic) The act of resulting; that which results; a result.
n
The circumstance in which one event instigates an expansive set of other events.
n
An unintended consequence of any action in addition to the intended consequence of that action.
v
To alter as a side effect.
n
(economics) The phenomenon in which an economic event in one context occurs because of something else in a seemingly unrelated context.
n
The result of becoming vicarious
adv
(generally after or) The same but with the two items mentioned reversed.
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