Effect may refer to:
- A result or change of something
- List of effects
- Cause and effect, an idiom describing causality
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...
Famous quotes containing the word effect:
“Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of themas an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.”
—Ben Hecht (18931964)
“Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achievedcommitment to a scenario.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)