EFFECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does effected mean? 

• EFFECTED (adjective)
  The adjective EFFECTED has 1 sense:

1. settled securely and unconditionally

  Familiarity information: EFFECTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EFFECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Settled securely and unconditionally

Synonyms:

accomplished; effected; established

Context example:

that smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact

Similar:

settled (established or decided beyond dispute or doubt)

 Context examples 

She was quite satisfied that a good deal was effected by this make-belief of housekeeping; and was as merry as if we had been keeping a baby-house, for a joke.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The probability that a test will produce a true postive result when used on effected subjects as compared to a reference or "gold standard".

(Diagnostic Sensitivity, NCI Thesaurus)

The probability that a test will produce a true negative result when used on non-effected subjects as compared to a reference or "gold standard".

(Diagnostic Specificity, NCI Thesaurus)

The means by which their early marriage was effected can be the only doubt: what probable circumstance could work upon a temper like the general's?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The man might have effected his entrance there, left traces as he passed through the bedroom, and finally, finding the door open, have escaped that way.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The consolation he drew from it was that a saving in postage was effected by the deadlock.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A man had waited outside the window; someone had brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which neither alone could have effected.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The purchaser is a foreign nobleman, Count de Ville, who effected the purchase himself paying the purchase money in notes 'over the counter,' if your Lordship will pardon us using so vulgar an expression.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Apparently,” said I as I read the following report: “Great excitement was caused in Esher and the neighbouring district when it was learned late last night that an arrest had been effected in connection with the Oxshott murder.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)