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Spadek

Spadek is a Polish noun with several related meanings. It can refer to what is left by a deceased person: the estate or inheritance. In law, spadek comprises assets and liabilities that pass to heirs upon opening the succession. Heirs acquire the spadek through legal acts such as stwierdzenie nabycia spadku or potwierdzenie nabycia spadku, often after a will (testament) or intestate succession. The heirs may accept or reject the spadek, and there may be liabilities to consider.

It also denotes a decrease or decline in quantity, value, or quality, used in economics, statistics, and

In mathematics and related fields, spadek describes the slope or gradient of a function or a straight

Etymology: the word spadek is derived from the verb spadać, meaning to fall or drop.

everyday
language.
For
example,
spadek
cen
means
price
drop,
spadek
produkcji
means
decline
in
production.
line.
The
spadek
of
a
line
y
=
mx
+
b
is
the
coefficient
m,
representing
the
rate
of
change
of
y
with
respect
to
x.
The
term
can
also
be
used
more
loosely
to
describe
a
downward
trend
in
a
graph.