snowball effect
An accelerating growth of magnitude, including fame, fortune, importance, or danger.
The success of these women has had the snowball effect of bringing more and more women into the sport over the past few years.
effect
UK /ɪˈfɛkt/ US /ɪˈfɛkt/
noun 5verb 2
Definitions
noun
1
The result or outcome of a cause.
The effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape.
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.
2
Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
patchwork […] introduced for oratorical effect
The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.
3
Execution; performance; realization; operation.
That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it.
4
Execution; performance; realization; operation.
The new law will come into effect on the first day of next year.
5
An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
The effect of flying was most convincing.
The colored bands of color that strobe through much of the text and other visual elements are perhaps the most prototypical of all Amiga demoscene effects and, again, are a direct result of the hardware on which Megademo was created to run.
verb
1
To make or bring about; to implement.
The best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders.
The offence thus given naturally effected an entire conversion in the queen's sentiments, and when Arthur returned from hunting, like Potiphar's wife, she charges Launfal with attempting her honour.
2
Misspelling of affect.
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