Verb

Infinitive to affect

Third person singular affects

Simple past affected

Past participle affected

Present participle affecting

to affect (third-person singular simple present affects, present participle affecting, simple past and past participle affected)

  1. (transitive) To influence or alter.
    The experience affected me deeply.
    The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction.
  2. (transitive) To move to emotion.
    He was deeply affected by the themes in the play.
  3. (transitive) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
    Hepatitis affects the liver.

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Tue Mar 2 14:47:37 2010

When used as a descriptor or adjective, affect means a change, and usually refers to an emotion or symptom. Affected, when used in a description, refers to fake or intentionally assumed behaviour (a changed behaviour), i.e., an affected accent.

In general, to affect refers to the consequences of a change or the influence a change has on something else. In this sense, it is often confused with to effect, which generally means to cause a change. When used as verbs, effect refers to the cause of a change ("the governor effected a change in policy"), and affect refers to the consequences of that change ("the new policy really affected our family"). An affect also refers to that change ("her affected accent really had an effect on me"; "her affected accent really affected my view of her").

Affect may refer to:

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Fri Feb 26 01:17:38 2010

How does pH affect the algae community composition?
Q. Hi, could anyone tell me how does pH affect the algae community composition? If possible, pls explain it in details. Thanks. My question's actually asking for how does pH affect the algae composition, for eg, if the pH scale lowers down to become acidic, will some of the algae organisms be killed? Or what happens to the rest of the algaculture? To stay active or inactive? Its growth rate is increased or any other specific things that will take place if the pH scale is moving up or down?
Asked by tictac - Thu Nov 1 13:29:52 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. algae are single celled organisms and they can photosythesize. photosynthesis, the process of producing glucose from air and water, is an enzme controlled process. enzmes are biological catalysts. (catalyst is a chemical that can speed up the rate of a reaction but cannot initiate it.) they are sensitive to pH and usually work in small range of a pH scale. optimum pH is the pH at which a particular enzme works best. since algae produces enzmes, they are indirectly effected by pH.
Answered by Leen - Thu Nov 1 17:43:30 2007

Does it really affect the airplanes systems?
Q. Does having an MP3 player turned on while a plane is on the ground really affect the airplanes' systems and giving it a 93% chance of crashing?
Asked by stephendavis2 - Sun Dec 30 03:26:07 2007 - - 23 Answers - 0 Comments

A. not while it's on the ground but they tell u when to turn it off and when to turn it on tho...
Answered by sassiebree16 - Sun Dec 30 03:28:48 2007

How does immigration affect medical care in the US?
Q. Quick question: How does immigration affect medical care in the US? Legal immigration. I need answers with stuff related to cultural difference between the patient and doctor and other stuff like that. Thanks.
Asked by ludalinkx@verizon.net - Mon Jun 30 15:56:24 2008 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. well, the language barrier is a problem. i do not understand chinese, russian, etc. some cultures do not allow a woman to talk to a male stranger, they have to talk through the dominant male, thereby not all info is given. some cultures it is taboo for a non-family male to touch a female. and, depending on where they are from, medical records, diagnosis, immune shots, and medicines are slim to none. health care in other countries is like non-existent, so people who come here have advanced cases and require more treatment than others. - more medication, treatment, and maybe other, more aggressive treatments that cost all of us more in the end. also, they are given medical care no matter if they can pay or not, and are given medicare and/o [cont.]
Answered by PETER J - Mon Jun 30 17:27:42 2008

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