special effect

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special effect (plural special effects) (usually plural)

  1. (film, television, theater) An effect that cannot be reasonably achieved by normal means, as for example by the digital manipulation of previously filmed footage.
    Synonyms: FX (initialism), F/X (initialism), SFX (initialism), S.F.X. (initialism)
    • 2013, Joel Schechter, Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook, page 16:
      So popular was trickwork and spectacle with nineteenth-century audiences, in fact, that hundreds of plays were written solely as vehicles for magic, special effects, or elaborately trapped settings.

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