SFX may refer to:
Entertainment
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Special effect
Special effects (often abbreviated as SFX, F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual wor ...
s (usually visual), illusions used in film, television, and entertainment
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Sound effect
A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media. Traditi ...
s, sounds that are artificially created or enhanced
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''SFX'' (magazine), a British magazine covering the topics of science fiction and fantasy
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SFX (Science Fiction Expo)
Fan Expo Canada is an annual speculative fiction fan convention held in Toronto, Ontario. It was founded as the Canadian National Comic Book Expo in 1995[SFX Entertainment
LiveStyle, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based live events conglomerate founded by media entrepreneur Robert F. X. Sillerman. The company was formed in June 2012 as SFX Entertainment—the new incarnation of Sillerman's previous company of the same nam ...](_blank)
, American promoter
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''S-F-X'' (album), a 1984 album by Haruomi Hosono
* SFX, a prototype
Super NES
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), commonly shortened to Super NES or Super Nintendo, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in E ...
video game console
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Super FX
The Super FX is a coprocessor on the Graphics Support Unit (GSU) added to select Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) video game cartridges, primarily to facilitate advanced 2D and 3D graphics. The Super FX chip was designed by Argonaut G ...
, a coprocessor chip used in some Super NES video game cartridges
* Use in comics of
onomatopoeic
Onomatopoeia is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Such a word itself is also called an onomatopoeia. Common onomatopoeias include animal noises such as ''oink'', ''m ...
, conventions to convey sound events accompanying visuals and dialogue
Computing
* Self-extracting archive, a compressed file with an embedded executable to decompress itself
* SFX (software), an OpenURL link server
* SFX (PSU), a design for a small form factor (SFF) power supply casing
* Small form factor (desktop and motherboard), a term covering smaller-than traditional form factors for computer components
* Spread Firefox, a web-browser promotion
* SquirrelFish Extreme, a JavaScript engine for WebKit; see JavaScriptCore, SquirrelFish Extreme
Other
* Audio signal processing, effects
* Ilford SFX, a photographic film
* Serial Femtosecond Crystallography, X-ray free-electron laser-based laboratory technique
See also
* FX (disambiguation)
* St. Francis Xavier (disambiguation)
* Small form factor (disambiguation)
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