KNOCK-ON EFFECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does knock-on effect mean? 

• KNOCK-ON EFFECT (noun)
  The noun KNOCK-ON EFFECT has 1 sense:

1. a secondary or incidental effect

  Familiarity information: KNOCK-ON EFFECT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNOCK-ON EFFECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A secondary or incidental effect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("knock-on effect" is a kind of...):

consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

That makes them the smallest worlds ever found around a star like our own sun, and has knock-on effects for the search for other planets like ours.

(Potentially Habitable 'Super-Earths' Found Orbiting around Sun's near Neighbor, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The decline in sharks has knock-on effects that might negatively affect human wellbeing too.

(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)

The researchers noted the sevengill sharks might not have the same effect on the ecosystems involved as the great whites have had, citing the ecological disruption apparently caused off Alaska when a change in orca behavior had a knock-on effect, disrupting sea otters' predation of sea urchins, whose population then exploded, plowing through the area's kelp forests.

(Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in, Wikinews)

Ultrafine aerosol particles found in polluted urban air can contribute to more intense storms in the Amazon rainforest, with potential knock-on effects for weather and climate patterns in the region and beyond, researchers have warned.

(Tiny pollutants intensify storms in the Amazon, SciDev.Net)

By using PET scanning techniques to observe activity across the marmoset’s brain the researchers found that over-activity in a region of the brain known as ‘area 25’ had a knock-on effect to other brain regions, which also became more active, indicating that these were all part of brain circuity controlling anticipatory excitement.

(Marmoset study gives insights into loss of pleasure in depression, University of Cambridge)