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effect

noun
/ɪˈfɛkt/CA/əˈfɛkt/

Etymology

Of the noun: from Middle English effect, from Old French effect (modern French effet), from Latin effectus (“an effect, tendency, purpose”), from efficiō (“accomplish, complete, effect”); see effect as a verb. Displaced Old English fremming, fremednes from fremman. Of the verb: from Middle English effecten, partly from Medieval Latin effectuō, from Latin effectus, perfect passive participle of efficiō (“accomplish, complete, do, effect”), from ex (“out”) + faciō (“do, make”) (see fact and compare affect, infect) and partly from the noun effect.

  1. derived from effectuō
  2. inherited from effecten
  3. inherited from fremming
  4. derived from effectus
  5. derived from effect
  6. inherited from effect

Definitions

  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

    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

    Execution; performance; realization; operation.

    • That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")

      • The effect of flying was most convincing.

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

      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.

    3. A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.

      • Doppler effect

    4. An influence or causal association between two variables.

      • effect size
      • therapeutic effect

    5. Belongings, usually as personal effects.

      • The tenant shall pay for the repair of, or replace all such items of the fixtures, fittings, furniture and effects as shall be broken, lost, damaged or destroyed during that time.
      • His Goods, Family, and all his Effects were also ſeiz'd every where, and his Family carried into Priſon.

    6. Consequence intended

      Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.

      • They spake to her to that effect.

    7. Reality

      Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.

      • no other in effect than what it seems

    8. Manifestation

      Manifestation; expression; sign.

      • All the large effects / That troop with majesty.

    9. To make or bring about

      To make or bring about; to implement.

      • The best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders.
      • The offence thus given naturally effected an entire conversion in the queen's sentiments, and when Arthur returned from hunting, like Potiphar's wife, she charges Launfal with attempting her honour.
      • The punishment for sodomy, when completely effected, was death, and it was frequently inflicted.

    10. Misspelling of affect.

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Derived

Abney effect, accelerator effect, acousto-optic effect, adverse effect, aha effect, Aharonov-Bohm effect, Al Jazeera effect, Allais effect, Allee effect, Amazon effect, anchoring effect, Anrep effect, anti-greenhouse effect, Askaryan effect, audience effect, Auger effect, Auger-Meitner effect, Autler-Townes effect, autokinetic effect, avalanche effect, Averch-Johnson effect, Baader-Meinhof effect, backfire effect, Balassa-Samuelson effect, Baldwin effect, Bambi effect, bandwagon effect, bank effect, barber pole effect, Barkhausen effect, Barnett effect, Barnum effect, Baskerville effect, Bayliss effect, Ben Franklin effect, Bernoulli effect, betavoltaic effect, Bezold-Brücke effect, Bezold effect, Biefeld-Brown effect · +480 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for effect. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA