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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

path dependence en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, usually) A situation in which the outcome varies with the route taken.
  2. (uncountable, usually) The theory that a technological option selected by the market need not be the technologically best one, because of the traction obtained by an early-introduced, technologically inferior alternative option.

Forms

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path dependences Number=Plur lexicographic
path dependency alternative lexicographic

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Translations (3)

sv spårbundenhet (a situation) · ko 경로 의존성 (a situation) · sv stigberoende (a situation)