Phrase Hound found 554 phrases and 28 compound words that contain effect. The most common are listed below. Open effect in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 554
- side-effectAlternative form of side effect.
- take effectTo become active; to become effective.
- adverse effectA side effect with negative (deleterious) consequences rather than positive (beneficial) ones; especially, such an effect in pharmacology.
- greenhouse effectThe process by which a planet is heated by solar radiation which is retained by its atmosphere.
- cause and effectCausation; causality; the process whereby a cause leads to an effect.
- sound effectAn artificially created or enhanced sound, used to accompany the action of a dramatic production, such as a film, play or video game.
- special effectAn effect that cannot be reasonably achieved by normal means, as for example by the digital manipulation of previously filmed footage.
- come into effectTo become enforceable, or applicable.
- ripple effectThe circumstance in which one event instigates an expansive set of other events.
- chilling effectA discouraging effect, especially on certain forms of officially legal speech.
- personal effectAn item of personal property that one carries on one's person, including identification, jewelry, and clothing.
- Same Effect
- effect sizeA measure of the strength or magnitude of the effect of an independent variable on a dependent variable in an experiment or a quasi-experiment.
- network effectThe higher growth rate of businesses with higher market share in those segments of economy in which the value of a product or service depends on the compounding effects of the number of existing users of the product or a service, as is the …
- field effectThe use of an electric field to control the conductivity of a channel in a semiconductor, as in FET.
- desired effectA side effect, especially a positive one in pharmacology.
- legal effectA particular state of the rights in consequence of a defined state or course of things.
- skin effectThe tendency of an alternating current to distribute itself in a conductor such that the current density is greater near the surface than near the core.
- Hall effectthe effect in which a conductor that carries an electric current perpendicular to an applied magnetic field develops a voltage gradient transverse to both current and field
- butterfly effectThe technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory.
- California effectThe supposed shift of consumer, environmental and other regulations in the direction of political jurisdictions with stricter regulatory standards.
- takes effectthird-person singular simple present indicative of take effect: To become active; to become effective.
- lake effectAn effect of large bodies of fresh water on the weather of regions downwind.
- Direct Effect
- ground effectAny aerodynamic effects occurring due to a vehicle's body or appendages moving in close proximity to the ground.
Compound words 28
- effectiveHaving the power to produce a required effect or effects.
- fecklessLacking purpose.
- effectfulSynonym of effectual: Producing the intended result; entirely adequate.
- effectismA form of art based on producing an effect rather than conveying an idea.
- isoeffectA line (on a graph) representing identical effects, especially of the effects of radiation on tumors
- bioeffectA biological effect
- coeffectA joint effect
- countereffectAn effect that is the opposite of another (especially another that has the same cause)
- effectomeA set of effectors
- intereffectThe condition of two or more things affecting each other.