0 present participle of diminish
1 to reduce or be reduced in size or importance:
The research to date suggests that this alarmist view of drastically diminishing welfare programmes or rising populist expectations needs to be substantially revised.
The income and religiosity variables are logged because we expect their effects to display diminishing returns at their highest values.
The descriptive claim is that individual preferences themselves are convex; that they exhibit generalized diminishing marginal utility.
We restrict all factors devoted to the accumulation of human capital in order to exhibit diminishing returns.
The second: architecture's diminishing importance relative to reality.
For example, there may be a diminishing marginal utility for injured parties that ought not be factored into the compensation that is owed.
What is revealed though by the curves is that values above these figures have a diminishing limited effect on the probability that therapy is cost-effective.
Even if courts continued to sit, they did so with diminishing effectiveness.
