sound effect

1. 1.

   an effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play

   Broadereffect

Questions about sound effect

What does sound effect mean?

sound effect means "an effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play".

Is sound effect a common word?

sound effect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.