human action,
human activity,
deed,
act a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it; "he signed the deed"; "he kept the title to his car in the glove compartment"
event -
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"
aftereffect any result that follows its cause after an interval
aftermath,
backwash,
wake the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"
bandwagon effect the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity; "in periods of high merger activity there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity"; "polls are accused of creating a bandwagon effect to benefit their candidate"
brisance the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion
butterfly effect the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago
change the action of changing something; "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election"
coattails effect (politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party; "he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election"
coriolis effect (physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere
dent an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
domino effect the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall)
product an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production"
placebo effect any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
position effect (genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome
repercussion,
reverberation a remote or indirect consequence of some action; "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"
response the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals
fallout,
side effect the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion
event -
A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system event listener. When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
event -
A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
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event An occurrence of social or personal importance.
event Something that happens or has happened.
event Condition that which follows something on which it depends.
