downward-sloping
Adjective Satellite
Meaning
sloping down rather steeply
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Examples
He began with a two-person bartering system, then moved on to the derivation of downward-sloping consumer demands.
In the economics' jargon, it is said that pure monopolies have "a downward-sloping demand".
In the model with an upward-sloping supply curve and downward-sloping demand curve, the aggregate excess demand function only intersects the axis at one point, namely, at the point where the supply and demand curves intersect.
It is aforementioned, that the demand curve is generally downward-sloping, there may be rare examples of goods that have upward-sloping demand curves.
"Kinked" demand curves are similar to traditional demand curves, as they are downward-sloping.
The pressure differences follow naturally from Newton's second law and from the fact that the flow along the surface naturally follows the predominantly downward-sloping contours of the airfoil.