special effect

noun

special effect

noun

Broadcasting, Entertainment, Film, Lifestyle, Media, Television, Theater Usually An effect that cannot be reasonably achieved by normal means, as for example by the digital manipulation of previously filmed footage.

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.2013, Joel Schechter, Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook, page 16:

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