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 states that there will be a point where the additional output of corn gained from one additional unit of fertilizer will be smaller than the additional output of corn from the previous increase in fertilizer. This table shows the output of corn per unit of fertilizer.