| interference | (American football) blocking a player's path with your body, he ran interference for the quarterback |
hindrance
hinderance
interference | the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding |
| fiber fibre vulcanized fiber | a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth |
fiber optic cable
fibre optic cable | a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light |
fiber-optic transmission system
fibre-optic transmission system
FOTS | a communication system using fiber optic cables |
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 |
hindrance
hinderance
hitch preventive preventative encumbrance
incumbrance
interference | any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome |
hovercraft
ground-effect machine | a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines |
optical fiber
glass fiber
optical fibre
glass fibre | a very thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light, used in bundles to transmit images |
character fiber
fibre | the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions, education has for its object the formation of character- Herbert Spencer |
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 |
fiber
fibre | any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) |
muscle cell
muscle fiber
muscle fibre | an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body |
nerve fiber
nerve fibre | a threadlike extension of a nerve cell |
fiber bundle
fibre bundle
fascicle
fasciculus | a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) |
| 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 |
fiber optics
fiberoptics
fibre optics
fibreoptics | the transmission of light signals via glass fibers |
effect
essence
burden
core
gist | the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work |
intervention
interference | a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries |
noise interference
disturbance | electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication |
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 |
fringe
interference fringe | one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light |
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 |
| effect | a symptom caused by an illness or a drug, the effects of sleep loss, the effect of the anesthetic |
| side effect | a secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy, severe headaches are one of the side effects of the drug |
fiber
fibre | a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn |
natural fiber
natural fibre | fiber derived from plants or animals |
animal fiber
animal fibre | fiber derived from animals |
plant fiber
plant fibre | fiber derived from plants |
staple staple fiber
staple fibre | a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn, staple fibers vary widely in length |
| take effect | go into effect or become effective or operative, The new law will take effect next month |