side-effect

See also: side effect

English

Noun

side-effect (plural side-effects)

1. Alternative spelling of side effect
   • 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:

     A common and beautiful side-effect of high solar activity is the Aurora Borealis - the northern lights that dance across Arctic skies.

Verb

side-effect (third-person singular simple present side-effects, present participle side-effecting, simple past and past participle side-effected)

1. To alter as a side effect.
   • 1980, W. de Moor, H. R. Wijngaarden, Psychotherapy, research and training, page 147:

     Furthermore, we are on the look-out for pre-conditions for good therapy - so as to prevent the unintended bad therapy: but our efforts are duly side-effected by lack of control over such preconditions.

   • 2002, Asian Symposium on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation:

     Local objects can further be distinguished by whether or not they are escaping from the execution of m, and non-local objects can be further distinguished by whether or not they are side-effected by a visible side-effect during the execution of m:

   • 2012, Robert L. Constable, Alexandra Silva, Logic and Program Semantics:

     Hence, side-effecting the environment is equivalent to collaborating with an autonomous co-robot.