effect

About 187.84 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The result or outcome of a cause.

   The effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape.

2. noun Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
3. noun Execution; performance; realization; operation. The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.

   The new law will come into effect on the first day of next year.

4. noun The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.

   The new law will come into effect on the first day of next year.

5. noun An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")

   The effect of flying was most convincing.

6. noun An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.

   I use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious.

7. noun A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.

   Doppler effect

8. noun An influence or causal association between two variables.

   effect size

Similar words

consequence outcome result upshot gist bring about effectuate set up essence force

Often followed by

of on is that in upon to was the

Word family

adverse effect adverse effects cause and effect effected effecting effects for effect gave effect give effect gives effect