adoption curve

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noun

a curve on a graph plotting the number of people using a new product against the time from its initial release

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Words nearby adoption curve

adopt, adoptable, adopted, adoptee, adoption, adoption curve, adoption panel, adoptive, adoptive immunity, adoptive immunotherapy, adorable

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Example sentences from the Web for adoption curve

Last summer, Louisiana also banned non-legal adoption, with offenders facing a penalty of $5,000 and up to five years in prison.
Judge: Rehoming Kids Is Trafficking|Tina Traster|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The children found a new family after a home study was done and the adoption was completed in court.
Judge: Rehoming Kids Is Trafficking|Tina Traster|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She and her sister went into business together in 1997, opening Curve Salon after a career in media.
Goodbye To A Natural Hair Guru: Miss Jessie's Cofounder Titi Branch Dead At 45|Danielle Belton|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They are for corporations like Hobby Lobby, and vast hospital networks, and, yes, adoption agencies.
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Instead, break out a form-fitting garment — think skinny jeans or a curve-hugging dress.
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He drew her back to him, and she yielded and settled closely in the curve of his arm, and he told her the story.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
There is a sharp curve in the permanent way outside the station, so that a train is on you all of a sudden.
Uncanny Tales|Various
These, then, appear to be the cogent reasons for the adoption of the medium rise in the modelling by Stradivari.
Antonio Stradivari|Horace William Petherick
By the adoption of scientific principles Hope-Jones has multiplied the efficiency of Swell boxes tenfold.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
Many organs now constructed have their tonal effects more than doubled through adoption of this principle.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller

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