Effect may refer to:
In pharmacy and pharmacology:
- Drug effect, a change resulting from the administration of a drug
- Therapeutic effect, a beneficial change in medical condition, often caused by a drug
- Adverse effect or side effect, an unwanted change in medical condition caused by a drug
- Dose-response effect, the relationship between a drug dose and its effect, plotted on a dose-response curve
In media:
- Special effect, an artificial illusion
- Sound effect, an artificially created or enhanced sound
- Visual effects, artificially created or enhanced images
- Audio signal processing
- Effects unit, a device used to manipulate electronic sound
- Effects pedal, a small device attached to an instrument to modify its sound
- Effects unit, a device used to manipulate electronic sound
Miscellaneous:
- Effects, one's personal property or belongings
- Effects (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Effects (film), a 2005 film
- Effect size, a measure of the strength of a relationship between two variables
- Effect system, formal system which describes the computational effects of computer programs
Amendments to the constitution of the United States: (Bill of Rights) Amendment IV "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, house, papers, and effects...
Other articles related to "effect":
... The main direct effect of sulfates on the climate involves the scattering of light, effectively increasing the Earth's albedo ... This effect is moderately well understood and leads to a cooling from the negative radiative forcing of about 0.5 W/m2 relative to pre-industrial values, partially offsetting the ... The effect is strongly spatially non-uniform, being largest downstream of large industrial areas ...
... The dolly zoom is an unsettling in-camera effect that appears to undermine normal visual perception ... The effect is achieved by using the setting of a zoom lens to adjust the angle of view (often referred to as field of view or FOV) while the camera dollies (or moves) towards or away from the subject in such a ... change without a size change is a highly unsettling effect, and the emotional impact of this effect is greater than the description above can suggest ...
... Splash damage is distinguished from area of effect damage in that typically splash damage deals increased damage to the target at the center of impact and ... dealing splash damage must be centered around a target, whereas area of effect spells may be used anywhere ... distinctions are not universal, though in most MMORPGs, the term area of effect (AoE or AE) is far more commonly used ...
... After Hitchcock popularized the effect (he used it again for a climactic revelation in Marnie), the technique was used by many other filmmakers, and eventually ... This was especially true after director Steven Spielberg repopularized the effect in his highly regarded film Jaws, in a memorable shot of a dolly zoom into Police Chief Brody's (Roy Scheider ...
... The effect of this is that even a moderately sized settlement of any antiquity is built on top of a heap of refuse and demolished buildings and is therefore ... In walled towns such as those in medieval Europe the effect of the encircling defences was to hold in the waste so that it could not slip outwards, magnifying the ...
Famous quotes containing the word effect:
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—Wendy Coppedge Sanford. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, introduction (1978)
“An actor must communicate his author’s given message—comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.”
—Eleanor Robson Belmont (1878–1979)
“At the heart of the educational process lies the child. No advances in policy, no acquisition of new equipment have their desired effect unless they are in harmony with the child, unless they are fundamentally acceptable to him.”
—Central Advisory Council for Education. Children and Their Primary Schools (Plowden Report)