The incremental effect of gravitational perturbations between the planets causes the inner Solar System as a whole to behave chaotically over long time periods.

Such laws have "certainly had some incremental, positive effect," he said, but "the overall effect has been quite small."

Often special variables to capture this incremental effect of launches are used.

No one knows whether the lack of medication will have an incremental or sudden effect on Mr. Goldstein's state of mind over the course of the trial, which is expected to last more than a month.

In pharmacology, the term ceiling effect refers to the property of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect (an example of diminishing returns).

LONG ISLAND should prepare now for the incremental effects of global warming, planners and scientists said last week in response to an international report that offered some dire predictions.

In considering the permit, the Corps needs to weigh not only the effect on the aquatic environment of this relatively small project but its incremental effect in relation to all the other major river projects now being proposed.

Honest marketing teams will only take credit for the incremental effect of their campaign.

But even an incremental effect upon those millions of children growing up watching 30 to 40 hours weekly of television is an ongoing phenomenon we cannot treat lightly.