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 states that: âAs a consumer consumes more and more units of a specific commodity, the utility from the successive units goes on diminishingâ. Mr. H. Gossen, a German economist, was first to explain this law in 1854.