(marketing) A distribution channel phenomenon in which demand forecasts yield supply chain inefficiencies: there are increasing swings in inventory in response to shifts in consumer demand as one moves further up the supply chain.

Synonym of bullwhip effect

plural of Forrester effect

The phenomenon whereby a person attempting to diet will eat a larger amount of a healthy alternative than they would of the normal food.

plural of Root effect

(physics, chemistry) A thermoelectric (or thermomagnetic) phenomenon observed when a sample allowing electrical conduction is subjected to a magnetic field and a temperature gradient normal (perpendicular) to each other. An electric field will be induced normal to both.

plural of Nernst effect

plural of edge effect

(ecology) A change in population or community structures that occurs at the boundary of two or more habitats.

(physics) The predicted spontaneous creation of particle-antiparticle pairs in the presence of an extremely strong electric field.