special verdict | a verdict rendered on certain specific factual issues posed by the court without finding for one party or the other |
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 |
K jet super acid special K honey oil green cat valium super C | street names for ketamine |
Saturday night special | a cheap handgun that is easily obtained |
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 |
special education | education of physically or mentally handicapped children whose needs cannot be met in an ordinary classroom |
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 |
special relativity special theory of relativity special relativity theory Einstein's special theory of relativity | a physical theory of relativity based on the assumption that the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant and the assumption that the laws of physics are invariant in all inertial systems |
sealed instrument contract under seal special contract | a contract that is signed and has the (wax) seal of the signer attached |
special pleading | (law) a pleading that alleges new facts in avoidance of the opposing allegations |
special act | a legislative act that applies only to a particular person or particular district |
effect essence burden core gist | the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work |
special delivery | mail that is delivered by a special carrier (for an additional charge) |
special | a television production that features a particular person or work or topic, the last of a series of BBC specials on Iran is being shown tonight |
special session | a session that is held in addition to the regular sessions |
special | a special offering (usually temporary and at a reduced price) that is featured in advertising, they are having a special on pork chops |
special pleading | an argument that ignores all unfavorable evidence |
Special Olympics | an athletic contest modeled after the Olympic Games but intended for mentally or physically handicapped persons |
special | a dish or meal given prominence in e.g. a restaurant |
special interest | an individual or group who are concerned with some particular part of the economy and who try to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor |
Special Branch | a government police department dealing with political security |
Naval Special Warfare NSW | the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare |
Special Forces U. S. Army Special Forces United States Army Special Forces | a division of the United States Army that is specially trained for guerilla fighting |
SWAT team SWAT squad Special Weapons and Tactics team Special Weapons and Tactics squad | a squad of policemen who have been trained to deal with violent and dangerous situations |
special court-martial | a court-martial to try soldiers for offenses less serious that than those committed in action, consists of at least three officers |
Special Air Service SAS | a specialist regiment of the British army that is trained in commando techniques of warfare and used in clandestine operations (especially against terrorist groups) |
special jury blue ribbon jury | a jury whose members are selected for special knowledge for a case involving complicated issues |
special agent | someone whose authority is limited to the special undertaking they have been instructed to perform |
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 |