size effect

English

Noun

size effect (countable and uncountable, plural size effects)

  1. (sciences) The impact of size on the magnitude or strength of a relationship, property or phenomenon.
    • 1968, Charles Goethe Kuper, An Introduction to the Theory of Superconductivity, page 92:
      The discrepancy between the experiments and the London theory has been interpreted as a size effect, arising from the scattering of normal electrons by the n-s boundary.
  2. (finance) The tendency of smaller stocks to generate larger returns than larger stocks of long periods.
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