main effect

collocation in English

meaningsofmainandeffect

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main
adjective[before noun]
uk
/meɪn/
us
/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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effect
noun
uk
/ɪˈfekt/
us
/əˈfekt/
the result of a ...
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(Definition ofmainandeffectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmain effect

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Themaineffectas shown in figure 10 is that the larger particles could rise higher (for given initial velocity).
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Furthermore, amaineffectof group for sad bias did not reach significance.
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We also predicted amaineffectof task : specifically, poorer performance on the blanks task.
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Across both probes, word type resulted in amaineffect, with children from all three groups earning higher scores for verbs than nouns.
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There was nomaineffectof violation type : children did not make more errors for agreement violations than for word order alterations.
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In the youngest groups, the largest contribution to detection times comes from themaineffectof violation position.
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However, thismaineffectof type of offset was modified by an interaction with vowel length.
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Thismaineffect, however, was clarified by an interaction.
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Consequently, if the defining contrast is the interaction between seven factors, eachmaineffecthas as its alias the six-factor interaction of the other treatments.
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Nomaineffectof age group was found.
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Themaineffectof vowel quality missed significance, and the interaction between dominant language and vowel quality was not significant.
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There was nomaineffectof age and no interaction between age and script knowledge condition.
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When examining global attention, there was a significantmaineffectfor age.
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Nomaineffectof familiarity was evident at any age.
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The picking up of extra variance in themaineffectis not seen at 50 % incidence.
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These results indicate that themaineffectof task is mainly due to differences in the delayed condition.
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Themaineffectfor language group stems from the fact that the bilinguals were slower overall.
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Themaineffectand interaction effects coefficients in italics result from adding the original main effect to those of the interaction term coefficients.
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