The human experience of feeling a sudden sense of insight upon making a discovery or realization.

(pharmacology) The tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work.

The influence of suggestion on unconscious behavior, frequently used to explain dowsing and other seemingly supernatural claims.

(physics) the thermodynamic effect by which heat being passed through a thermocouple is converted into electricity

(physics) A thermoelectric effect which occurs when current is passed through a thermocouple, used in computing as a cooling process.

(fluid dynamics) In a flowing fluid, the occurrence of what is stated by Bernoulli's principle.

(physics) The creation of excess electron-hole pairs, triggered by impinging beta particles.

(physics) the conversion of electromagnetic radiation into electric power through absorption by a semiconducting material

(physics) the generation of static electricity by friction between different materials

(physics, fluid mechanics) The reduction in fluid pressure that results when a fluid flows through a constriction.