Noun

(en noun)

The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement .}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author= , title=Well-connected Brains , volume=100, issue=2, page=171 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, […].}}

A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness

* [The exploits] of the ancient saints do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes. - (Isaac Barrow)

* The highest achievements of the human intellect. - (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

(heraldry) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

(video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.

Noun

The result or outcome of a cause. See below.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect , and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}

Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.

* J. C. Shairp

patchwork introduced for oratorical effect

* Washington Irving

The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.

(filmology) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")

(sound engineering) An alteration in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.

(sound engineering) A device for producing an alteration in sound produced by an instrument.

Execution; performance; realization; operation.

* Shakespeare

That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it.

# (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.

A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.

(usually plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.

Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to .

* Bible, Chron. xxxiv. 22

They spake to her to that effect .

(obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.

* Denham

no other in effect than what it seems

(obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.

* Shakespeare

All the large effects / That troop with majesty.