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How to pronounce “effective”
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Pronunciation guide for effective
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of effective with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Most Good You Can Do
This is a book about effective altruism
- Definition summary
- Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
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How to pronounce effective
The Most Good You Can Do

This is a book about effective altruism
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “effective”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
- Producing a decided or decisive effect.
- Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
- Actually in effect.
- (geometry, of a cycle or divisor) Having no negative coefficients.
- (algebra, of a group action) Such that no group element acts trivially.
- (physics, for any effective theory) approximate; Not describing the fundamental dynamic changes in some system as they happen.
- [Noun]
- (military) a soldier fit for duty
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