12-letter words that end in ect
- after-effect — The after-effects of an event, experience, or substance are the conditions which result from it.
- auger effect — the spontaneous emission of an electron instead of a photon by an excited ion as a result of a vacancy being filled in an inner electron shell
- birth defect — an inherited disease or condition that a baby is born with
- blast effect — the damage caused by the force of an explosive blast
- call collect — If you call collect when you make a telephone call, the person who you are phoning pays the cost of the call and not you.
- clapham sect — a group of early 19th-century Church of England evangelicals advocating personal piety, the abolition of slavery, etc
- class object — (programming) In object-oriented programming, an object of class "class" that represents a class at run time. The existence of class objects allows introspection - the ability for a program to discover and modify attributes of its own code. (See self-modifying code). A class object may also be used for "housekeeping" tasks like keeping count of how many objects of the class have been created, though this may also be done by some kind of collection object. A class method is a method that operates on class objects.
- core subject — the three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
- eden project — an environmental complex containing the world's largest greenhouse, built in a disused clay pit near St Austell, Cornwall, to study plant populations in a variety of environments
- eliza effect — (jargon) /e-li:'z* *-fekt'/ (From ELIZA) The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol "+" that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's just that people associate it with addition. Using "+" or "plus" to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. The ELIZA effect is a Good Thing when writing a programming language, but it can blind you to serious shortcomings when analysing an Artificial Intelligence system. Compare ad-hockery; see also AI-complete.
- field-effect — designating or of an electronic component or device, esp. a transistor, controlled by an external electric field
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- hertz effect — the effect of ultraviolet radiation in lowering the sparking voltage across a spark gap: an example of photoelectric effect.
- hypercorrect — overly correct; excessively fastidious; fussy: hypercorrect manners.
- interconnect — to connect with one another.
- joule effect — the generation of heat by the passage of electricity through a resistance.
- kylie effect — the increased awareness of breast cancer caused by the publicity surrounding its diagnosis in Kylie Minogue, born 1968, Australian singer and actress
- mips project — Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
- misrecollect — to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
- moire effect — the appearance, when two regularly spaced sets of lines are superimposed, of a new set of lines (moiré pattern) passing through the points where the original lines cross at small angles.
- nonarchitect — a person or builder who is not an architect
- notch effect — the increase in stress in an area of a component near a crack, depression, etc, or a change in section, such as a sharp angle: can be enough to cause failure of the component although the calculated average stress may be quite safe
- note-perfect — (of a singer or musician) able to sing or play without making any errors
- past perfect — pluperfect.
- pinch effect — the tendency of an electric conductor or stream of charged particles to constrict, caused by the action of a magnetic field that is produced by a flow of electricity.
- point defect — an imperfection in a crystal's lattice structure, either a missing atom or ion creating a vacancy in the lattice or an extra atom or ion between two normal lattice points creating an interstitial.
- raman effect — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- scale insect — any of numerous small, plant-sucking homopterous insects of the superfamily Coccoidea, the males of which are winged and the females wingless, often covered by a waxy secretion resembling scales.
- sejant-erect — (of an animal) represented as seated upright with forelegs raised: a lion sejant-erect.
- self-neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- self-respect — proper esteem or regard for the dignity of one's character.
- sound effect — any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.
- stage effect — a highly spectacular or artificial device or means, especially for attracting attention.
- stark effect — Physics. (often lowercase) the splitting into two or more components of the spectral lines of atoms in an electric field.
- stick insect — walking stick (def 2).
- tool subject — a subject that, when mastered, equips students with a skill useful in studying other subjects: Grammar is a tool subject for English composition.
- toxic effect — an adverse effect of a drug produced by an exaggeration of the effect that produces the therapeutic response
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- volta effect — contact potential.
- word-perfect — correct in every detail
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