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As a verb, to do; to produce; to make; to bring to pass; to execute; enforce; accomplish. As a noun, that which is produced by an agent or cause; result; outcome; consequence. The result that an instrument between parties will produce in their relative rights, or which a statute will produce upon the existing law, as discovered from the language used, the forms employed, or other materials for construing it. The operation of a law, of an agreement, or an act. The phrases take effect, be in force, and go into operation, are used interchangeably. In the plural, a person's effects are the real and Personal Property of someone who has died or who makes a will. EFFECT. The operation of a law, of an agreement, or an act, is called its
effect.
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Doppler toppler After 60 years of anticipation, experimenters finally created an inverse Doppler effect, an increase in the frequency of an electromagnetic wave, rather than the usually observed decrease in frequency, from a receding source (164: 358). Precipitation moving toward the radar causes the electromagnetic waves to bounce back with higher frequency--it's called the Doppler effect. To the right of these two works hung Tomaselli's Doppler Effect in Blue, 2002, with its swirling strings of collaged eyes, ears, mouths, hands, feet, flowers, birds, and insects, all interspersed with actual pills. |
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