Look up effect in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Effect may refer to: A result or change of something List of effects Cause and effect, an idiom describing...
The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness...
The Effect is a play by the British playwright Lucy Prebble. The story revolves around two protagonists, Connie and Tristan, who volunteer in a clinical...
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear...
The Bezold effect is an optical illusion, named after a German professor of meteorology Wilhelm von Bezold (1837–1907), who discovered that a color may...
The thermoelectric effect is the direct conversion of temperature differences to electric voltage and vice versa via a thermocouple. A thermoelectric device...
The Leidenfrost effect is a physical phenomenon in which a liquid, close to a solid surface of another body that is significantly hotter than the liquid's...
overview effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. Researchers have characterized the effect as "a state...
Observer effect, observer bias, observation effect, or observation bias may refer to a number of concepts, some of them closely related: Hawthorne effect, a...
The Barnum effect, also called the Forer effect or, less commonly, the Barnum–Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give...
The halo effect (sometimes called the halo error) is the tendency for positive impressions of a person, company, country, brand, or product in one area...
In physics, the accordion effect (also known as the slinky effect, concertina effect, elastic band effect, and string instability) occurs when fluctuations...
A domino effect is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a series of similar or related events, a form of chain reaction. The term is...
The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons from a material caused by electromagnetic radiation (light). Electrons emitted in this manner are...
The greenhouse effect occurs when greenhouse gases in a planet's atmosphere insulate the planet from losing heat to space, raising its surface temperature...
deterministic health effect has a severity that is dependent on dose and is believed to have a threshold level for which no effect is seen. Stochastic...
The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the...
The Hawthorne effect is a type of human behavior reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being...
Mass Effect is a military science fiction media franchise created by Casey Hudson. The franchise depicts a distant future where humanity and several alien...
The Zeeman effect (/ˈzeɪmən/; Dutch pronunciation: [ˈzeːmɑn]) is the effect of splitting of a spectral line into several components in the presence of...
The Magnus effect is an observable phenomenon commonly associated with a spinning object moving through a fluid. A lift force acts on the spinning object...
An adverse effect is an undesired harmful effect resulting from a medication or other intervention, such as surgery. An adverse effect may be termed a...
The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim in presence...
In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of...
Look up effector in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Effector may refer to: Effector (biology), a molecule that binds to a protein and thereby alters the...
The Hall effect is the production of a potential difference (the Hall voltage) across an electrical conductor that is transverse to an electric current...
The Stark effect is the shifting and splitting of spectral lines of atoms and molecules due to the presence of an external electric field. It is the electric-field...
In quantum field theory, the Casimir effect (or Casimir force) is a physical force acting on the macroscopic boundaries of a confined space which arises...
The Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon in which high expectations lead to improved performance in a given area and low expectations lead to...
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