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    bouba/kiki effect, or kiki/bouba effect, is a non-arbitrary mental association between certain speech sounds and certain visual shapes. Most narrowly, it is the...
    19 KB (2,124 words) - 14:24, 3 April 2024
  • McCollough effect is a phenomenon of human visual perception in which colorless gratings appear colored contingent on the orientation of the gratings. It is an...
    17 KB (1,954 words) - 04:52, 11 February 2024
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    parameters required to produce the effect. The Mpemba effect is named after Tanzanian scientist Erasto Bartholomeo Mpemba, who described it in 1963 as a secondary...
    26 KB (3,170 words) - 08:24, 30 May 2024
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    mirror), but this is not required to produce the effect. A similar appearance in artworks has been called the Droste effect. Infinity mirrors are sometimes...
    8 KB (896 words) - 02:29, 14 June 2024
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    overview effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. Researchers have characterized the effect as "a state...
    45 KB (4,042 words) - 20:48, 19 June 2024
  • effect. Synergistic effect is similar to additive effect, having a combination effect greater than additive effect. It can produce an effect of 2+2 > 4 when...
    27 KB (3,198 words) - 08:06, 7 November 2023
  • usually smaller than 20 milliseconds. This produces a swept comb filter effect: peaks and notches are produced in the resulting frequency spectrum, related...
    15 KB (1,920 words) - 11:02, 20 May 2024
  • is "more fluent or familiar than when it was first learned" and thus produces an illusion of truth. The effect grew even more pronounced when statements...
    15 KB (1,698 words) - 04:54, 14 May 2024
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    The Meissner effect (or Meißner–Ochsenfeld effect) is the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting...
    14 KB (1,704 words) - 08:04, 30 April 2024
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    A Hall effect sensor (also known as a Hall sensor or Hall probe) is any sensor incorporating one or more Hall elements, each of which produces a voltage...
    35 KB (3,882 words) - 22:35, 17 June 2024
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    the Magnus effect, topspin produces a downward swerve of a moving ball, greater than would be produced by gravity alone. Backspin produces an upwards...
    24 KB (3,044 words) - 14:53, 18 June 2024
  • The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the...
    36 KB (4,562 words) - 02:53, 7 April 2024
  • piece. A drone may also be any part of a musical instrument used to produce this effect; an archaic term for this is burden (bourdon or burdon) such as a...
    14 KB (1,717 words) - 22:30, 6 June 2024
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    mineral is heated sufficiently; commercial furnaces can routinely produce this effect. Vermiculite forms by the weathering or hydrothermal alteration of...
    24 KB (2,769 words) - 09:28, 18 April 2024
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    storm but was persuaded to make it more poetic with the use of a butterfly and tornado by 1972. He discovered the effect when he observed runs of his weather...
    44 KB (5,075 words) - 01:46, 13 June 2024
  • The no-observed-adverse-effect level (NOAEL) denotes the level of exposure of an organism, found by experiment or observation, at which there is no biologically...
    6 KB (683 words) - 19:14, 13 August 2023
  • Mass Effect is a military science fiction media franchise created by Casey Hudson. The franchise depicts a distant future where humanity and several alien...
    133 KB (11,729 words) - 22:37, 10 June 2024
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    Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer lake water. The lower layer...
    44 KB (4,834 words) - 13:58, 12 May 2024
  • general be a tensor, and the Kerr effect produces a modification of this tensor. In the optical or AC Kerr effect, an intense beam of light in a medium...
    15 KB (2,239 words) - 19:57, 2 May 2024
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    Stracciatella (ice cream) (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
    is drizzled, popular around Rome. It is one of the most renowned Italian gelato flavors. Makers produce the effect by drizzling melted chocolate into...
    6 KB (609 words) - 15:36, 13 June 2024
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