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 returns, a widely accepted premise in economics, simply states that there is a point beyond which production is not increased proportionally to input, and eventually might even began to decrease. A ridiculously simple example is as follows: You have a factory with one machine making doo-dahs.