present participle of side-effect

Causing side effects.

(chemistry) With regard to a stable tetrahedrane derivative with four tertiary butyl substituents enveloping the tetrahedrane core, the theory that bonds in the core are prevented from breaking because this would force the substituents closer together, resulting in van der Waals strain.

The supposed effect exhibited by the Coriolis force.

A visual illusion wherein the first position of a moving object entering a window is misperceived.

(marketing) The phenomenon whereby consumers will tend to have a specific change in preference between two options when also presented with a third option that is asymmetrically dominated: that is, the third option is inferior in all respects to one option, but, in comparison to the other, it is inferior in some respects and superior in others.

Synonym of eureka effect

The phenomenon whereby the path of a spinning object moving through a fluid is deflected in a manner that is not observed when the object is not spinning, explained by the difference in pressure of the fluid on opposite sides of the object.

A counterintuitive physical phenomenon observed with a chain of beads placed inside a jar: when one end of the chain is yanked from the jar and allowed to fall to the floor, it establishes a self-sustaining flow of the chain which rises up into an arch as if being sucked by an invisible siphon.

The psychophysical percept whereby lateral motion of an object in the field of view is interpreted by the visual cortex as having a depth component, due to a relative difference in signal timings between the two eyes.