Term vs Effect - What's the difference?
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Limitation, restriction or regulation. (rfex)
Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
* Francis Bacon
(geometry) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
Relations among people.
* , chapter=22
, title= Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
(mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
(logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
* Sir W. Hamilton
(architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.
Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
(computing) A terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal.
(of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
(astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
(archaic) A menstrual period.
* 1660 , (Samuel Pepys), Diary
(nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
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* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= 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 * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
* J. C. Shairp
* Washington Irving
(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
# (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
(obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
* Denham
(obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.
* Shakespeare
To make or bring about; to implement.
As nouns the difference between term and effect
is that term is term while effect is the result or outcome of a cause see below .As a verb effect is
to make or bring about; to implement.term
English
(wikipedia term)Noun
(en noun)- Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms , or boundaries.
- A line is the term''' of a superficies, and a superficies is the '''term of a solid.
- "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
- The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
- My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again.
Derived terms
{{der3, at term , blanket term , collective term , come to terms , long-term , midterm , short-term , term limit , term logic , term of art , terms and conditions , umbrella term}}See also
* idiom * lexeme * listeme * wordVerb
(en verb)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}
External links
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English
(wikipedia effect)Noun
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.}}
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.}}
- patchwork introduced for oratorical effect
- The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.
- That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it.
- They spake to her to that effect .
- no other in effect than what it seems
- All the large effects / That troop with majesty.
Usage notes
The words “affect” and “effect'” can both be used as nouns or verbs, but when used as a noun the word affect is limited to uses in the psychology field, and the above definitions for ' effect are much more common. See also the usage notes as a verb below. Adjectives often applied to "effect": * biological, chemical, cultural, economic, legal, mental, moral, nutritional, personal, physical, physiological, political and social * actual, bad, beneficial, catastrophic, deleterious, disastrous, devastating, fatal, good, harmful, important, intended, likely, natural, negative, positive, potential, primary, real, secondary, significant, special, strong, undesirable and weakDerived terms
(noun phrases using effect) * after-effect, aftereffect * butterfly effect * domino effect * Doppler effect * greenhouse effect * in effect * knock-on effect * Nader effect * personal effects * ripple effect * side effect * snowball effect * special effect * sound effect * spoiler effectVerb
(en verb)- The best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders.