opposite effect
71Floor effect — In statistics, the term floor effect refers to when data cannot take on a value lower than some particular number, called the floor.An example of this is when an IQ test is given to young children who have either (a) been given training or (b)… …
72Triboelectric effect — Triboelectric series: Most positively charged + Air Human skin Leather Rabbit s fur Glass Quartz Mica Human hair …
73Edge effect — An edge effect in biology is the effect of the juxtaposition of contrasting environments on an ecosystem. This term is commonly used in conjunction with the boundary between natural habitats, especially forests, and disturbed or developed land.… …
74Cotton effect — The Cotton effect is the characteristic change in optical rotatory dispersion and/or circular dichroism in the vicinity of an absorption band of a substance. In a wavelength region where the light is absorbed, the absolute magnitude of the… …
75Buffett Effect — An inverse “Bradley effect,” whereby white Republicans, in the privacy of the polling booth, voted for Barack Obama. Thomas L. Friedman coined the term in The New York Times: But there also may have been something of a “Buffett effect” that… …
76Tanada effect — The Tanada effect refers to the adhesion of root tips to glass surfaces. It is believed to involve electric potentials. It is named for the scientist who first described the effect, Takuma Tanada, PhD, in 1968.The phenomenon was observed while Dr …
77Magnus effect — /mag neuhs/, Mech. the thrust on a cylinder rotating about its axis while in motion in a fluid, the thrust being perpendicular to the relative motion of the cylinder in the fluid. [1920 25; after Heinrich G. Magnus (1802 70), German scientist] *… …
78Substitution Effect — The idea that as prices rise (or incomes decrease) consumers will replace more expensive items with less costly alternatives. Conversely, as the wealth of individuals increases, the opposite tends to be true, as lower priced or inferior… …
79Wimbledon Effect — The Wimbledon Effect is a chiefly British and Japanese analogy (which possibly originated in Japan [http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,1242513,00.html] [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi qa3724/is 199806/ai n8795065] )… …
80Hook’s joint effect — The movement of a rotor blade to reposition itself relative to the other blades when a cyclic stick is applied. This situation arises when the plane of the rotor disc and the drive shaft are not normal to each other. In I and II, the helicopter… …
