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J curve
noun
A curve on a graph that initially falls, then rises to a point higher than its starting point.
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Hybels traced the "J curve" of mounting deaths from war through the centuries.
I can see the J curve in the reviews of my app on Google Play.
Management have also not said whether the contract follows the usual J curve, with greater profits further out.
If I had to draw a J curve, as economists put it, it would look like this: Note that the green list is longer than the red one.
And now there is "The J Curve", an attempt to sum up in one simple graphic arguably the world's most pressing geopolitical challenge: how to turn authoritarian regimes into stable, open democracies.Like the long tail, the J curve is an old shape given new meaning by its author, Ian Bremmer, founder of Eurasia Group, a firm that advises on political risk.
The problem is that nasty J curve.
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They would prevent the two monetary cures from inflicting that bad old J curve-induced bleeding of the patient to the point of death.
(The finite-J curves converge to the infinite-J curve at large g).
The size-class distribution of trees, drawn from 7765 stems, is a decreasing reverse-J curve, typical of natural forest regenerating from seed.
The J-curve in arterial hypertension: fact or fallacy?
Televisions, refrigerators, mobile handsets all have the same kind of J-curve.
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