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[Adjective] | "ef*fec*tive" | \ i-ˈfek-tiv \
1: producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect
2: impressive, striking
3: being in effect : operative
Origin: 14th century ;
Middle English effectif, borrowed from Late Latin effectīvus "producing a result, efficient," going back to Latin, "involving an end product," from effectus, past participle of efficere "to make, bring about, produce, carry out" + -īvus {see: |-ive|-ive} {mat|effect:1|};
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[Adjective] | "cost-ef*fec*tive" | \ ˈkȯst-ə-ˈfek-tiv \
1: producing good results without costing a lot of money
Origin: 1966 ;
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[Noun] | "effective"
1: one that is effective; especially : a soldier equipped for duty
Origin: 1708 ;
Derivative of {see: |effective:1|effective:1};
(1) - { effective date } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?
[Noun] | "effective date"
1: the day when a law, rule, contract, etc., starts to be used
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[Adjective] | "effective"
1: producing or capable of producing a desired result;
* e.g., " ... an effective treatment of the once-dreaded disease "
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2: having the power to persuade;
* e.g., " ... made an effective argument in favor of the proposal "
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3: existing in fact and not merely as a possibility;
* e.g., " ... made the mistake of confusing the plant's production capacity with its effective output "
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# 1 - { effective:16043631 }
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[ "effective" ]
1: Useful
* e.g., ... this is effective
# 2 - { in effect:1868905 }
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[ "in effect" ]
1: here and ready; often used in the beginning of RAP songs to indicate the artist is there and ready to jam
* e.g., ... Start of No More by Christian RAP band dc Talk
[ "in effect" ]
2: also "in full effect"
* e.g., ... DCT in effect!
# 3 - { The IT effect:15106093 }
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[ "The IT effect" ]
1: The process of how an technical issue solves it self while being explained to an expert in the domain.
* e.g., ... I felt the the IT effect when tried showing the bug I found to Jim in IT but then I couldn't reproduce it.
# 4 - { effectivity:13705989 }
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[ "effectivity" ]
1: In manufacturing, which instances of a complicated product get a particular version of a part. Effectivity was coined at Boeing, in their old factory-control software, to identify a specific airplanes on the assembly line.
* e.g., ... The redesigned part goes on this effectivity and all following ones.
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[ "effect" ]
1: effect is one of the most widely misused words in the English vocabulary; mainly because of its counter-part, the word affect.
* e.g., ... The Effect of drinking too much beer is waking up and finding a semi-nude manatee-sized woman laying in bed next to you.
[ "effect" ]
2: effect is an ocurrence that follows, or that is caused by a previous ocurrence. Not to be confused with 'A'ffect.
* e.g., ... The OPEC has a direct Effect on oil prices.
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[ "effectivity" ]
1: An idiotic modern word that has crept out of technical use in game theory to compete in pseudo-intellectual discourse with the real English word satisfying the same part of speech (effectiveness), which should be used instead in almost every case. Not to be confused with efficacy, which actually has a different meaning.
* e.g., ... The effectivity of the word "effectivity" is nonexistent.
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[ "effects" ]
1: n.-Personal belongings
* e.g., ... "I need to get my effects."
# 8 - { Effecting:6176796 }
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[ "Effecting" ]
1: tweaking it to make it look 20 times more visually attractive than it was before
* e.g., ... Ricky: dude this pictures so dull
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[ "effectency" ]
1: David Dobrik's friend Dom made this word up in a vlog David posted while talking about condoms, he was trying to say the word effectiveness, but said the word effectency.
* e.g., ... David: You want your own condoms
# 10 - { Mass Effect effect:4546044 }
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[ "Mass Effect effect" ]
1: The aftermath of a night of playing sci-fi role playing game Mass Effect or Mass Effect 2 for the Xbox or PC. This is usually the result of playing more than 4 hours at a time or playing until the sun rises. Symptoms include falling asleep at work or just being disoriented throughout the day. Can alter sleep patterns and cause slurred speech. If this pattern of late night gaming persists it could lead to altered perceptions of reality where you want to make decisions like Commander Shepherd or make constant references to the game in conversations with people who have no idea what you are talking about.
* e.g., ... Example 1
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