SFX may refer to:
Entertainment
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Special effects (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), a convention in Toronto, Canada
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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 name ...
, 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 ...
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 Argona ...
, a coprocessor chip used in some Super NES video game cartridges
* Use in comics of
onomatopoeic, conventions to convey sound events accompanying visuals and dialogue
Computing
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Self-extracting archive
A self-extracting archive (SFX or SEA) is a computer executable program which contains compressed data in an archive file combined with machine-executable program instructions to extract this information on a compatible operating system and ...
, a compressed file with an embedded executable to decompress itself
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SFX (software), an OpenURL link server
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SFX (PSU), a design for a small form factor (SFF) power supply casing
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Small form factor (desktop and motherboard)
Small form factor (SFF or SFX) is a term used for desktop computers, and their enclosures and motherboards, to indicate that they are designed in accordance with one of several standardized computer form factors intended to minimize the volume a ...
, a term covering smaller-than traditional form factors for computer components
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Spread Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current an ...
, a web-browser promotion
* SquirrelFish Extreme, a JavaScript engine for WebKit; see
SquirrelFish Extreme
Other
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Audio signal processing
Audio signal processing is a subfield of signal processing that is concerned with the electronic manipulation of audio signals. Audio signals are electronic representations of sound waves— longitudinal waves which travel through air, consist ...
, effects
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Ilford SFX, a photographic film
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Serial Femtosecond Crystallography, X-ray free-electron laser-based laboratory technique
See also
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FX (disambiguation)
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St. Francis Xavier (disambiguation)
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Small form factor (disambiguation)
Small form factor (often abbreviated "SFF") is a term for computer components designed to a smaller than usual form factor.
The term is commonly used for:
* Small form factor (desktop and motherboard), desktop computers and motherboards with sm ...
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