effect
IPA: ɪfˈɛkt
noun
- The result or outcome of a cause.
- Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
- Execution; performance; realization; operation.
- (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.
- (cinematography, computer graphics, demoscene) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
- (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
- (physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
- (usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
- Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
- (obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
- (obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.
verb
- (transitive) To make or bring about; to implement.
- Misspelling of affect. [(transitive) To influence or alter.]
Advertisement
Examples of "effect" in Sentences
- The effects impact both the body and the mind.
- The effect of the impact increased to a multitude.
- The result is somewhat similar to the placebo effect.
- The effects are the results of power and intelligence.
- The depression of the early 1930s had a positive effect on the tannery.
- The center position of the gear release prohibits the ratcheting effect.
- Litz wire reduces the impact of the skin effect and the proximity effect.
- Progression is the increase of the proportion of the effect to the result.
- The effect of wistful intimacy is not a result of improvisational looseness.
- Sensors sense the effective or ineffective position of the respective system.
- Both of these would have the effect of extremely diminishing the _effect_ of the measure in Ireland.
- An effect being _defined_ as something subsequent to its cause, obviously we can have no _effect_ upon the past.
- What a model program like Globaloria and others like it shows us, in effect, is that kids don't need to wait for Superman.
- In that way I discern the power of each thing, and that is the same power which produces the same effect, and that is a different power which produces a different effect_. "[
- The Cause of any event, then, when exactly ascertainable, has five marks: it is (quantitatively) _equal_ to the effect, and (qualitatively) _the immediate, unconditional, invariable antecedent of the effect_.
- So it is deemed better to classify in accordance with the function or effect it is known a means _must_ perform or accomplish than in accordance with the _object_ with respect to which an act or acts are directed or in accordance with some _effect_ which may or may not result.
- He must study the nature of the effect he is to produce, and of the materials upon which he is to work, and adopt, after mature deliberation, a plan to accomplish his purpose, founded upon the principles which ought always to regulate the action of mind upon mind, and adapted to produce the _intellectual effect_, which he wishes to accomplish.
- "As to Mr Oswald's offer to make an acknowledgment of our independence the first article of our treaty, and your Excellency's remark, that it is sufficient, and that _we are not to expect the effect before the cause_, permit us to observe, that by the _cause_, we suppose, is intended the _treaty_, and by the _effect_, an acknowledgment of our independence.
- Given an effect to be accounted for, and there being several causes which might have produced it, but of the presence of which in the particular case nothing is known; the probability that the effect was produced by any one of these causes _is as the antecedent probability of the cause, multiplied by the probability that the cause, if it existed, would have produced the given effect_.
- If it were proper to be rigorous in examining trifles, it might be replied, that Shakespeare would write more erroneously, if he wrote by the direction of this critick; they were not _distilled_, whatever the word may mean, _by the effect of fear_; for that _distillation_ was itself the _effect_; _fear_ was the cause, the active cause, that _distilled_ them by that force of operation which we strictly call _act_ involuntary, and _power_ in involuntary agents, but popularly call _act_ in both.