practical effect
31for all practical purposes — adverb in every practical sense (Freq. 1) to all intents and purposes the case is closed the rest are for all practical purposes useless • Syn: ↑to all intents and purposes, ↑for all intents and purposes * * * for all practical purposes phr …
32Casimir effect — Casimir forces on parallel plates Casimir forces on parallel pl …
33Flynn effect — The Flynn effect is the rise of average Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test scores over the generations, an effect seen in most parts of the world, although at greatly varying rates. It is named after James R. Flynn, who did much to document it and… …
34Timeline of recordings with a flanging effect — Flanging is a time based audio effect that occurs when two identical signals are mixed together, but with one signal time delayed by a small and gradually changing amount, usually smaller than 20 ms (milliseconds). This produces a swept comb… …
35Overconfidence effect — The overconfidence effect is a well established bias in which someone s subjective confidence in their judgments is reliably greater than their objective accuracy, especially when confidence is relatively high.[1] For example, in some quizzes,… …
36for practical purposes — for (all) practical purposes used to say that one thing has the same effect or result as something else His effort to hide the document was, for practical purposes [=in effect], an admission that he had made a mistake. During the blizzard, the… …
37Electrocaloric effect — The electrocaloric effect is where a material shows a reversible temperature change under an applied electric field. Electrocaloric materials were the focus of significant scientific interest in the 1960s and 1970s, but were not commercially… …
38Multiple-effect evaporator — diagram of a double effect falling film evaporator. Condensing vapors from flash tank B1 heat evaporator A2. 1=feed, 2=product, 3=steam, 4=vapors A multiple effect evaporator, as defined in chemical engineering, is an apparatus for efficiently… …
39Butterfly effect — For other uses, see Butterfly effect (disambiguation). Point attractors in 2D phase space. In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result …
40Field-effect transistor — FET redirects here. For other uses, see FET (disambiguation). High power N channel field effect transistor The field effect transistor (FET) is a transistor that relies on an electric field to control the shape and hence the conductivity of a… …
