decision determination conclusion | the act of making up your mind about something, the burden of decision was his, he drew his conclusions quickly |
judicial torture | torture that is sanctioned by the state and executed by duly accredited officials, the English renounced judicial torture in |
litigation judicial proceeding | a legal proceeding in a court, a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights |
judgment judgement judicial decision | (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it |
final judgment final decision | a judgment disposing of the case before the court, after the judgment (or an appeal from it) is rendered all that remains is to enforce the judgment |
Bakke decision | a ruling by the Supreme Court on affirmative action, the Court ruled in that medical schools are entitled to consider race as a factor in their admission policy |
judicial review | review by a court of law of actions of a government official or entity or of some other legally appointed person or body or the review by an appellate court of the decision of a trial court |
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 |
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 |
decisiveness decision | the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose, a man of unusual decisiveness |
broad interpretation judicial activism | an interpretation of the U.S. constitution holding that the spirit of the times and the needs of the nation can legitimately influence judicial decisions (particularly decisions of the Supreme Court) |
decision making deciding | the cognitive process of reaching a decision, a good executive must be good at decision making |
decision determination conclusion | a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration, a decision unfavorable to the opposition, his conclusion took the evidence into account, satisfied with the panel's determination |
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 |
legal principle judicial principle judicial doctrine | (law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence |
sheriff's sale execution sale judicial sale forced sale | a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation |
legal separation judicial separation | a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart |
writ judicial writ | (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer |
decision table | a table of all contingencies and the actions to be taken for each |
effect essence burden core gist | the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work |
stipulation judicial admission | (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court, must be in writing unless they are part of the court record, a stipulation of fact was made in order to avoid delay |
decision | the outcome of a game or contest, the team dropped three decisions in a row |
decision | (boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred, had little trouble in taking a unanimous decision over his opponent |
split decision | a boxing decision in which the judges are not unanimous |
judiciary judicature judicatory judicial system | the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government |
judicial branch | the branch of the United States government responsible for the administration of justice |
administrator decision maker | someone who administers a business |
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 |
effect | a symptom caused by an illness or a drug, the effects of sleep loss, the effect of the anesthetic |