diol m (plural diols) (organic chemistry) diol; Further reading âdiolâ in le TrÃ©sor de la langue franÃ§aise informatisÃ© (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Noun. 1. law of diminishing returns-a law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectiveness. law of nature, law-a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; the laws of thermodynamics. 1  Facebook.
The law of diminishing marginal utility is similar to the law of diminishing returns which states that as the amount of one factor of production increases as all other factors of production are held the same, the marginal return (extra output gained by adding an extra unit) decreases.