What is "affects"

Usage examples of "affects".

The sterility of hybrids, which have their reproductive systems imperfect, and which have had this system and their whole organisation disturbed by being compounded of two distinct species, seems closely allied to that sterility which so frequently affects pure species, when their natural conditions of life have been disturbed.

We want to cut to the core and find out how what has happened affects us.

A report, known as the Stewart Inquiry, suggests that radiation from cell phones speeds up the growth of human tissue and negatively affects thought processes.

So with insects, Wollaston is convinced that residence near the sea affects their colours.

Careful observers are convinced that a damp climate affects the growth of the hair, and that with the hair the horns are correlated.

We see this even in so trifling a circumstance as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals.

It is what people _are_ rather than what they preach that affects others.

A continuous medium--ether--transmits the vibrations without friction-- and thought-force is doubtless similarly transmitted--er---' 'So that if I think of a flower or a star, my thought leaps into them and affects them?

Thus I ask your indulgence to make reference to a question which is decidedly Irish, but is also Imperial, in the sense that it affects the lives of large numbers of persons, especially of the emigrant class, and is interesting to all the navigation and commerce of necessity passing the north-west extremity of Ireland.

It is a question which affects the position and character, the honour, the interests, and the duties of this great country.

Light is a comfort, and darkness at sea seems to aggravate the strange feeling which now and then affects you, as you think you are following a great road without track or guide--save that which the stars, if visible, and the previous day's observations afford.

From the several cases above given, there can be no doubt that the position of the leaves at night affects their temperature through radiation to such a degree, that when exposed to a clear sky during a frost, it is a question of life and death.

Finally, although there can be no doubt that the illumination of the upper part of the cotyledons of Phalaris greatly affects the power and manner of bending of the lower part, yet some observations seemed to render it probable that the simultaneous stimulation of the lower part by light greatly favours, or is almost necessary, for its wellmarked curvature.

It is extremely doubtful whether with fully developed plants the illumination of one part ever affects the curvature of another part.

Penn of INDPAK all of a sudden gets the idea to start claiming that now that it's snowing the snow totally affects blast area and fire area and pulse-intensity and maybe also has fallout implications, and he says Lord has to now completely redo everybody's damage parameters before anybody can form realistic strategies from here on out.