effective mechanism

collocation in English

meaningsofeffectiveandmechanism

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effective
adjective
uk
/ɪˈfek.tɪv/
us
/əˈfek.tɪv/
successful or achieving the results that ...
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mechanism
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
us
/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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(Definition ofeffectiveandmechanismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The control scheme gave the government a crude but reasonablyeffectivemechanismfor suppressing consumer demand.
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Such early coincidence detection would be a veryeffectivemechanismto abrogate the background signal represented by thermal and uncorrelated visual events.
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It proves the lack of aneffectivemechanismfor direct exchange of energy between photons at presently available intensities.
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Questions focused on general areas related to the establishment of aneffectivemechanismfor developing an appropriate process for evidence-based reporting and health technology assessment.
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The design of the retinogeniculocortical circuitry might provide a veryeffectivemechanismto drive cortical cells with a limited number of spikes.
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Software agents have been demonstrated to be aneffectivemechanismfor service discovery and negotiation in various computing environments.
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When -, higher fines induce greater pollution and there is noeffectivemechanismfor deterring corrupt behavior.
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Nevertheless, for this to be aneffectivemechanismin the long term, regeneration of the cysteinyl residue of the catalytic centre of 1-cys-peroxiredoxin should also be possible.
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Simão's scenario is based on an alternative psychology in which aneffectivemechanismof social transmission enables culture change.
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Our observations of emaciated and dying animals indicate that the low fruit production period could be aneffectivemechanismto suppress populations of species that depend on tree fruits.
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Theeffectivemechanismof the market is such that only products possessing the capacity to be exchanged in the first place are allowed to make their appearance there.
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The infiltration of these fluids, and their interaction with carbonate, represents aneffectivemechanism for the development of 'endoskarn' (magmatic protolith) and 'exoskarn' (carbonate protolith).
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We are making a claim of a different sort: academic medicine has failed to create aneffectivemechanism for patients, healthcare workers, students, and faculty to correct unethical behavior.
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Trust, as an aspect of social control, is thus viewed as a moreeffectivemechanismfor security in an open, distributed system, like an information-sharing community.
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We ought to need no convincing of the necessity for a technically moreeffectivemechanismfor gathering all the statistics that are required.
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It has proved to be a costeffectivemechanismfor stimulating investment in tourism.
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At its heart it lacks aneffectivemechanismto operationalise some of its good intentions.
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One is that it is becoming a good andeffectivemechanism, and the other is that it is an utter farce.
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I believe that education is the mosteffectivemechanismby which wreck sites can be offered the best protection, but it may not be sufficient.
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