effect : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity
  
  • in periods of high merger activity there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity
  • polls are accused of creating a bandwagon effect to benefit their candidate

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• noun the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago
  

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• noun (politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party
  
  • he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election

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• noun (physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere
  

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• noun the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall)
  

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• noun change in the apparent frequency of a wave as observer and source move toward or away from each other
  Doppler shift.
  

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• noun a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field
  FET.
  

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• for an exaggerated impression or excitement.

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• noun warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere; caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass through but absorb heat that is radiated back from the warmed surface of the earth
  greenhouse warming.
  

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• noun apparent increase in aerodynamic lift experienced by an aircraft flying close to the ground
  

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• noun a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines
  hovercraft.
  

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• adjective satellite exerting force or influence
  in force; good; effective.
  
  • the law is effective immediately
  • a warranty good for two years
  • the law is already in effect (or in force)
• adverb in actuality or reality or fact
  effectively.
  
  • she is effectively his wife
  • in effect, they had no choice

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• in fact; in substance. See 8, above.

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• noun a secondary or incidental effect
  

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• noun (psychology) the principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences; behavior having good consequences tends to be repeated whereas behavior that leads to bad consequences is not repeated
  

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• effective power; useful work exerted, as by a machine, in a definite time.

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• destitute of results, validity, force, and the like; vain; fruitless. "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition." Mark vii. 13. "All my study be to no effect." Shak.

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• noun property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business
  effects.
  
  • she left some of her personal effects in the house
  • I watched over their effects until they returned

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• noun electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt); alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal
  piezoelectricity; piezo effect.
  

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• noun electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt); alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal
  piezoelectricity; piezo effect.
  

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• noun any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
  

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• noun (genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome
  

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• noun a secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy
  
  • severe headaches are one of the side effects of the drug
• noun any adverse and unwanted secondary effect
  fallout.
  
  • a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal

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• noun the tendency of high-frequency alternating current to distribute near the surface of a conductor
  

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• noun an effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play
  

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• noun an effect used to produce scenes that cannot be achieved by normal techniques (especially on film)
  

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• noun a special effect created on the stage
  

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• verb go into effect or become effective or operative
  
  • The new law will take effect next month

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• to make valid; to carry out in practice; to push to its results.

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• to become operative, to accomplish aims. Shak.

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• . See under Effect, and Fire.

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• adverb with that general meaning
  
  • she said something to that effect

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• noun the phenomenon in which light is scattered by very small particles in its path; it makes a beam of light visible; the scattered light is mainly blue
  

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