curve curve ball
breaking ball
bender | a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter |
c acid
back breaker
battery-acid
dose dot
Elvis
loony toons
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
pane superman
window pane
Zen | street name for lysergic acid diethylamide |
bend
curve | curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) |
blind curve
blind bend | a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving |
booster
booster dose
booster shot
recall dose | an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective |
dose
dosage | a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time |
field-effect transistor
FET | a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field |
hovercraft
ground-effect machine | a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines |
| lethal dose | the size dose that will cause death |
impression
effect | an outward appearance, he made a good impression, I wanted to create an impression of success, she retained that bold effect in her reproductions of the original painting |
| effect force | (of a law) having legal validity, the law is still in effect |
| curvature curve | the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface |
| law of effect | (psychology) the principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences, behavior having good consequences tends to be repeated whereas behavior that leads to bad consequences is not repeated |
| effect | an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived), he just did it for effect |
| sound effect | an effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play |
| special effect | an effect used to produce scenes that cannot be achieved by normal techniques (especially on film) |
| stage effect | a special effect created on the stage |
normal curve
bell-shaped curve
Gaussian curve
Gaussian shape | a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution |
regression line
regression curve | a smooth curve fitted to the set of paired data in regression analysis, for linear regression the curve is a straight line |
effect
essence
burden
core
gist | the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work |
frequencyesponse curve
frequencyesponse characteristic | (electronics) a graph of frequency response with signal amplitude or gain plotted against frequency |
| curve | a line on a graph representing data |
characteristic curve
characterisic function | (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters |
| Laffer curve | a graph purporting to show the relation between tax rates and government income, income increases as tax rates increase up to an optimum beyond which income declines |
| learning curve | a graph showing the rate of learning (especially a graph showing the amount recalled as a function of the number of attempts to recall) |
consequence
effect
outcome
result
event issue
upshot | a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon, the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise, his decision had depressing consequences for business, he acted very wise after the event |
| bandwagon effect | the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity, in periods of high merger activity there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity, polls are accused of creating a bandwagon effect to benefit their candidate |
| butterfly effect | the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago |
| coattails effect | (politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party, he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election |
| Coriolis effect | (physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation, on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere |
| domino effect | the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall) |
| knock-on effect | a secondary or incidental effect |
| placebo effect | any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo, the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do, pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs |
| position effect | (genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome |
side effect
fallout | any adverse and unwanted secondary effect, a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal |
| ground effect | apparent increase in aerodynamic lift experienced by an aircraft flying close to the ground |
greenhouse effect
greenhouse warming | warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere, caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass through but absorb heat that is radiated back from the warmed surface of the earth |
piezoelectricity
piezoelectric effect
piezo effect | electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt), alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal |
| skin effect | the tendency of high-frequency alternating current to distribute near the surface of a conductor |
Doppler effect
Doppler shift | change in the apparent frequency of a wave as observer and source move toward or away from each other |
| Tyndall effect | the phenomenon in which light is scattered by very small particles in its path, it makes a beam of light visible, the scattered light is mainly blue |
radiation
radioactivity | the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay |
| radioactivity unit | a measure of radioactivity |
dose
dosage | the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time |
| exponential curve | a graph of an exponential function |
curve
curved shape | the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes |
| closed curve | a curve (such as a circle) having no endpoints |
simple closed curve
Jordan curve | a closed curve that does not intersect itself |
sine curve
sinusoid | the curve of ysin x |
a venereal disease
VD
venereal infection
social disease
Cupid's itch
Cupid's disease
Venus's curse
dose
sexually transmitted disease
STD | a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact |