How to Spell effect
effect
effect - noun
- Something that inevitably follows an antecedent (such as a cause or agent) : result, outcome
- A distinctive impression
- The creation of a desired impression
- The quality or state of being operative : operation
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"the effects of the policy"
Etymology
Middle English effect, effete "achievement, result, capacity to produce a result, gist, purpose," borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French effette, effect, borrowed from Latin effectus "carrying out (of a purpose or task), result, mode of operation," from effec-, variant stem of efficere "to make, construct, bring about, produce, carry out" (from ef-, assimilated form of ex- ex-:1 + facere "to do, make, bring about") + -tus, suffix of action nouns
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