Usually means: Result or outcome of cause.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word effect:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. effect: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. effect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. effect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. effect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. effect: Vocabulary.com
  6. Effect, effect: Wordnik
  7. effect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. effect: Wiktionary
  9. effect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. effect: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. effect: Dictionary.com
  12. effect (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. effect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Effect, The Effect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Effect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. effect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. effect: Rhymezone
  18. effect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. effect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. effect: Free Dictionary
  21. effect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. effect: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. effect: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. effect: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. effect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. effect: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. effect: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. effect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. effect: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. effect: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. EFFECT: Acronym Finder
  4. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. effect: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)
  2. EFFECT: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Effect: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. -effect: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. effect: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Effect, effect: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See effected as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The result or outcome of a cause.
noun:  Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
noun:  Execution; performance; realization; operation.
noun:  (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.
noun:  (cinematography, computer graphics, demoscene) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
noun:  (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
noun:  (physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
noun:  (usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
noun:  Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
noun:  (obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
noun:  (obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.
verb:  (transitive) To make or bring about; to implement.
verb:  Misspelling of affect. [(transitive) To influence or alter.]

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