side-effect

To alter as a side effect.

Noun

  1. Alternative form of side effect.
    • Gynecomastia is estimated to affect anywhere from 30 to 70 per cent of males at some stage of their lives. And "gyne" or "gyno", as it's commonly known, is not only an unwelcome (and ironic) side-effect of...
    • A common and beautiful side-effect of high solar activity is the Aurora Borealis - the northern lights that dance across Arctic skies. - 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather...

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side-effects

Verb

  1. To alter as a side effect.
    • Furthermore, we are on the look-out for pre-conditions for good therapy - so as to prevent the unintended bad therapy: but our efforts are duly side-effected by lack of control over such preconditions. - 1980, W. de...
    • Local objects can further be distinguished by whether or not they are escaping from the execution of m, and non-local objects can be further distinguished by whether or not they are side-effected by a visible...
    • Hence, side-effecting the environment is equivalent to collaborating with an autonomous co-robot. - 2012, Robert L. Constable, Alexandra Silva, Logic and Program Semantics:

Forms

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