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avalanche effect

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avalanche effect (plural avalanche effects)

  1. (cryptography) A property of some cipher systems in which a small change in the input results in a very large change in the output.
  2. (physics) The rapid increase in the number of free electrons in a gas subjected to a strong electric field.