An increasingly intense demand must thus spring up for systems of long distance transmission, and very high voltage will be adopted as the means of diminishing the loss of power due to leakage from the cables.
The latter is not necessarily a diminishingutility curve at all, for the poor man whose price offer is lowest may easily desire the good more intensely than does the rich man whose demand price is highest.
By diminishing the efforts required to satisfy one want, we liberate the efforts needed to satisfy a new want; it is only when we can satisfy this new want that the means of satisfaction acquires value.
The former curve does express a diminishing scale of absolute feeling-magnitudes,[63] concerned with the consumption of the good.
The law of "diminishing utility" as we increase the increments of each object, holds, and the problem is that of a marginal equilibrium.
They refuse to place their objects in a scale of "diminishing utility.
Its previously ascertained latent content [corresponding to the latent dream thoughts] will in the manifest form be transcribed in different and gradually diminishing disguises.
Within the box is a slide to assist in regulating the focus, and in enlarging or diminishing the picture.
Hadn't I had the effect rather of diminishing the lustre of the article than of adding to my own?
In the paper which he wrote explaining this theory, however, he shows some knowledge of the effects of bringing conductors into contact in diminishing their capacity.
At each stroke of the pump the mercury in the barometer tube descended, but through successively diminishing distances, until at length it stood only an inch above the mercury in the cistern.
While at Passy, Franklin addressed to the Journal of Paris a paper on an economical project for diminishing the cost of light.
Crossley was intrenched in the remotest of a series of rooms, each tenanted by under-staffers of diminishing importance as you drew way from the great man.
She saw why she had refused Stanley, why she had stopped "borrowing," why she had put off going to the theatrical managers, why she had delayed moving into quarters within her diminished and rapidly diminishing means.
After giving numerous technical details the young watchmaker terminates thus: "By this means I make watches as thin as may be desired, thinner even than have before been made, without in the leastdiminishing their good quality.
Seaweed boiled in sea-water was used to eke out the rapidly diminishing stock of seal and penguin meat.
He died in 1703, and his business was carried on by his descendants for some time, but with gradually diminishing success.
They were usually circular, with three diminishing tiers, sometimes surrounded by a continuous or interrupted pierced gallery in wood or brass.
The importance of the above-mentioned natural dyestuffs is gradually diminishing in favour of mordant dyestuffs and others derived from coal-tar.
It rendered the crews better natured, too, much diminishing their toil, and sending them to their bunks at night in a far better condition for rest than they otherwise could have been.
The schooners now took in their foresails, for the double purpose of diminishing their velocity and of being in a better condition to change their course, in order to avoid dangers ahead.
Through the glass he saw that it did not fall to the ground, but continued on in a straight line, only its rapidly diminishing size showing the enormous velocity with which it was moving.
The amazing flood of immigration with which {135} it has been attended is steadily diluting the Anglo-Saxon element and diminishing the relative influence of the native American.
But surely the remedy lies in deepening the moral sense, not in limiting or diminishing the material strength of the nation.
Thus the newspapers suffered a rapidly diminishing revenue, and they found it necessary to discharge many of their employees and to reduce the salaries of others.
The market was kept open as long as liquidation could safely be carried on (thus immensely diminishing the pressure to be withstood during the suspension) and it was closed at the very instant that a collapse was threatened.
At the Portland end the pebbles are of the size of a hen's egg, gradually diminishing to that of a bean at the other extremity.
The beam trawl consists of a triangular purse-shaped net, about seventy feet long, forty wide at the mouth, gradually diminishing to four or five at the commencement of the cod, as the smaller end is called.
Instead of diminishing the business of each it has had actually the very opposite effect.
The constant subdivision that has been going on during the centuries of the past has resulted in the great diminishing in the size of the holdings, and the leaving of many of the rural population without any land at all.
Sickness in camp, I am glad to say, is diminishing every day; instead of sending down a thousand men a week to Scutari, as we did a month ago, we now despatch on an average only two hundred.
The bay is a large expanse of water about eighteen miles broad at its seaward extremity, diminishing to about eight miles inland, and being about twenty miles long.
Such an arrangement has the advantage that a great number of lights may be put on without diminishing the light-power of the lamps in the circuit, as the brushes assume at once the proper position.
This I effect by rendering the discharges through the primary of the induction coil less frequent, and also by diminishing the rapidity of the vibration in the secondary.
