effectnoun/ɪˈfɛkt/

• 1

  The result or outcome of a cause.

  • The effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape.
  • The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.
• 2

  Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.

  • patchwork […] introduced for oratorical effect
  • The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.
• 3

  Execution; performance; realization; operation.

  • That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it.
• 4

  Execution; performance; realization; operation.

  • The new law will come into effect on the first day of next year.
• 5

  broadcastingcinematographycomputer-graphicsAn illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")

  • The effect of flying was most convincing.
  • The colored bands of color that strobe through much of the text and other visual elements are perhaps the most prototypical of all Amiga demoscene effects and, again, are a direct result of the hardware on which Megademo was created to run.
• 6

  An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.

  • I use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious.
  • I just bought a couple of great effects.
• 7

  sciencesA scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.

  • Doppler effect
• 8

  mathematicssciencesstatisticsAn influence or causal association between two variables.

  • effect size
  • therapeutic effect

effectverb/ɪˈfɛkt/

• 1

  To make or bring about; to implement.

  • The best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders.
  • The election has affected our society, for it has effected major changes in the government.

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