To implement; to execute; to carry out.

The phenomenon whereby a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapour layer which keeps the liquid from boiling rapidly.

The effect that remembering something is easier if a study period is interrupted by other tasks.

The continuous worldwide increase in average scores on intelligence tests.

The use of the relative movement and gravity of a planet or other celestial body to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft.

(cryptography) A property of some cipher systems in which a small change in the input results in a very large change in the output.

A phenomenon of visual perception caused by staring at a uniform field of colour, leading to a sensation of blindness and sometimes to hallucinations.

(psychology) The tendency of people to modify their choices depending on how the choices are presented

The fact that hemoglobin's oxygen binding affinity is inversely related both to acidity and to the concentration of carbon dioxide.

The tendency to assume that computers behave analogously to human beings.