"side-effect" meaning in English

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          "word": "side effect"
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          "ref": "2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30",
          "text": "A common and beautiful side-effect of high solar activity is the Aurora Borealis - the northern lights that dance across Arctic skies.",
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        "present",
        "singular",
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    },
    {
      "form": "side-effecting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "side-effected",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "side-effected",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1980, W. de Moor, H. R. Wijngaarden, Psychotherapy, research and training, page 147",
          "text": "Furthermore, we are on the look-out for pre-conditions for good therapy - so as to prevent the unintended bad therapy: but our efforts are duly side-effected by lack of control over such preconditions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Asian Symposium on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation",
          "text": "Local objects can further be distinguished by whether or not they are escaping from the execution of m, and non-local objects can be further distinguished by whether or not they are side-effected by a visible side-effect during the execution of m:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Robert L. Constable, Alexandra Silva, Logic and Program Semantics",
          "text": "Hence, side-effecting the environment is equivalent to collaborating with an autonomous co-robot.",
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        "To alter as a side effect."
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  "word": "side-effect"
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          "ref": "2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30",
          "text": "A common and beautiful side-effect of high solar activity is the Aurora Borealis - the northern lights that dance across Arctic skies.",
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        }
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "side-effects",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
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    },
    {
      "form": "side-effecting",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "side-effected",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "side-effected",
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          "ref": "1980, W. de Moor, H. R. Wijngaarden, Psychotherapy, research and training, page 147",
          "text": "Furthermore, we are on the look-out for pre-conditions for good therapy - so as to prevent the unintended bad therapy: but our efforts are duly side-effected by lack of control over such preconditions.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Asian Symposium on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation",
          "text": "Local objects can further be distinguished by whether or not they are escaping from the execution of m, and non-local objects can be further distinguished by whether or not they are side-effected by a visible side-effect during the execution of m:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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          "text": "Hence, side-effecting the environment is equivalent to collaborating with an autonomous co-robot.",
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        }
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        "To alter as a side effect."
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