effective
Pronunciation: /ɪˈfɛktɪv/
The English word “effective” has 8 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
- Producing a decided or decisive effect.
- Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
- Actually in effect.
- Having no negative coefficients.
- Such that no group element acts trivially.
- approximate; Not describing the fundamental dynamic changes in some system as they happen.
noun
Etymology
From French effectif, from Latin effectīvus (“productive; effective”), from efficiō (“to make; to bring about”), equivalent to effect + -ive.
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