special effect

English

Noun

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.
   • 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.

Related terms

(special effects):

• FX, F/X
• SFX, S.F.X.

Translations

effect that cannot be reasonably achieved by normal means

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: xüsusi effekt
• Catalan: efecte especial m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特殊效果 (tèshū xiàoguǒ), 特效 (zh) (tèxiào), 特技 (zh) (tèjì)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: erikoisefekti
• French: effet spécial (fr) m
• Georgian: სპეციალური ეფექტი (sṗecialuri epekṭi), სპეცეფექტი (sṗecepekṭi)
• German: Spezialeffekt m
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• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: efek khusus, efek visual
• Japanese: 特殊撮影 (tokushu satsuei)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: kesan istimewa, kesan khas
• Maori: ata mariko, ata mariko
• Polish: efekty specjalne nvir pl
• Portuguese: efeito especial (pt) m
• Romanian: efect special n
• Russian: спецэффе́кт (ru) m (specɛffékt)
• Spanish: efectos especiales (es) m pl
• Swedish: specialeffekt c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: özel efekt