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Princeton's WordNet

  1. side effectnoun

    a secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy

    "severe headaches are one of the side effects of the drug"

  2. side effect, falloutnoun

    any adverse and unwanted secondary effect

    "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal"

Wiktionary

  1. side effectnoun

    An unintended consequence of any action in addition to the intended consequence of that action.

  2. side effectnoun

    An adverse effect, an unintended consequence of a drug or therapy; usually not a beneficial effect.

  3. side effectnoun

    A change in state caused by a function call (typically "side-effect").

Wikipedia

  1. Side Effect

    Side Effect was an American disco and jazz-funk band, that recorded between 1972 and 1982. The group was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1972 by Augie Johnson who became their leader.

ChatGPT

  1. side effect

    A side effect is an unintended, typically undesirable outcome or consequence resulting from a treatment, medication, therapy, or other intervention. It could also refer to any secondary, often unintended, consequence or result that arises from a particular action or situation. In computing, it refers to any observable change or effect that occurs in addition to the intended behavior of a system or program.

Wikidata

  1. Side effect

    In computer science, a function or expression is said to have a side effect if, in addition to returning a value, it also modifies some state or has an observable interaction with calling functions of the outside world. For example, a function might modify a global or static variable, modify one of its arguments, raise an exception, write data to a display or file, read data, or call other side-effecting functions. In the presence of side effects, a program's behavior depends on history; that is, the order of evaluation matters. Understanding and debugging a function with side effects requires knowledge about the context and its possible histories. Side effects are the most common way that a program interacts with the outside world. But the degree to which side effects are used depends on the programming paradigm. Imperative programming is known for its frequent utilization of side effects. In functional programming, side effects are rarely used. Functional languages such as Standard ML, Scheme and Scala do not restrict side effects, but it is customary for programmers to avoid them. The functional language Haskell restricts side effects with a static type system; it uses the concept of monads to do stateful and IO computations.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Side Effect in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Side Effect in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Side Effect in a Sentence

  1. Kara Richardson Whitely:

    Maybe they'll buy my book, but also leave with a little something to get them on their way to their own adventure, maybe it's a water bottle, which is where I started my first journey, with a Naglene, or a trail book. The side effect will be that more people are actually get out and feeling comfortable being part of this club, this group.

  2. Dyan Hes:

    So most of the drugs on the market that are appetite suppressants or work on the appetite regulatory system have some kind of central nervous system side effect, because any time you affect any neurotransmitter in the brain regarding appetite, there's always going to be another systemic effect of some system, whether it's moodiness or it can affect depression or it can affect headaches, this is really, clearly just focused on the physicality of being more full.

  3. Robert Frenck:

    And so the myocarditis -- which means swelling of the muscles of the heart -- we have seen that as a rare side effect has been associated with it looks like the second dose of either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, rare meaning in the likelihood of a few per 100,000, so it's still like a 99.999 % chance that this won't happen. It's been almost all in teenage boys, and it's been mild been treated with Motrin( ibuprofen), and they've gotten better.

  4. Scott Snyder:

    The main side effect that I see is that it raises questions about the credibility of the United States as a protector, as an alliance partner, and that's not good for the relationship.

  5. Ryan Marsh:

    Since he’s been on this new drug, the main side effect is muscle cramping, and that’s just something almost a normal person would experience with some of the things he does, but he seems to do a good job of dialing back the intensity when [the muscle cramps] come back.


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