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Ovsiankina effect

Ovsiankina effect noun: the tendency to pick up an interrupted action again when it has still not been completed.

Noun

Ovsiankina effect (plural Ovsiankina effects)

  1. The tendency to pick up an interrupted action again when it has still not been completed.

Forms of Ovsiankina effect

pluralOvsiankina effects

Origin of Ovsiankina effect

Named after Maria Ovsiankina (1898–1993), a Russian-German-American psychologist who studied this effect.

Questions about Ovsiankina effect

What does Ovsiankina effect mean?
Ovsiankina effect means the tendency to pick up an interrupted action again when it has still not been completed.
What part of speech is Ovsiankina effect?
Ovsiankina effect is a noun.
What is the plural of Ovsiankina effect?
The plural of Ovsiankina effect is Ovsiankina effects.

Words near Ovsiankina effect in the dictionary

  1. OVP
  2. OVRA
  3. Ovruch
  4. OVS
  5. Ovshinsky
  6. Ovsiankina effect
  7. Ovsiankina effects
  8. OVT
  9. ovuh
  10. ovula
  11. ovular

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