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Effect Definition–noun | 1. | something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin. | | 2. | power to produce results; efficacy; force; validity; influence: His protest had no effect. | | 3. | the state of being effective or operative; operation or execution; accomplishment or fulfillment: to bring a plan into effect. | | 4. | a mental or emotional impression produced, as by a painting or a speech. | | 5. | meaning or sense; purpose or intention: She disapproved of the proposal and wrote to that effect. | | 6. | the making of a desired impression: We had the feeling that the big, expensive car was only for effect. | | 7. | an illusory phenomenon: a three-dimensional effect. | | 8. | a real phenomenon (usually named for its discoverer): the Doppler effect. | –verb (used with object) | 10. | to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen: The new machines finally effected the transition to computerized accounting last spring. | —Idioms | 11. | in effect, | a. | for practical purposes; virtually: His silence was in effect a confirmation of the rumor. | | b. | essentially; basically. | | c. | operating or functioning; in force: The plan is now in effect. | | 12. take effect, | a. | to go into operation; begin to function. | | b. | to produce a result: The prescribed medicine failed to take effect. | | |
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