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
* Sound effects, sounds that are artificially created or enhanced
* ''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 1995SFX Entertainment, American promoter
* ''S-F-X'' (album), a 1984 album by Haruomi Hosono
* SFX, a prototype Super NES video game console
* Super FX, 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
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SFX (software)
SFX was the first OpenURL link resolver or link server. It remains the most widely used OpenURL resolver, being used by over 2,400 libraries.
Librarians Herbert van de Sompel, Patrick Hochstenbach and their colleagues at Ghent University in Belgiu ...
, an OpenURL link server
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SFX (PSU)
A power supply unit (PSU) converts mains AC to low-voltage regulated DC power for the internal components of a computer. Modern personal computers universally use switched-mode power supplies. Some power supplies have a manual switch for select ...
, 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
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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 and a ...
, a web-browser promotion
* SquirrelFish Extreme, a JavaScript engine for WebKit; see SquirrelFish Extreme
Ilford SFX
SFX is a black-and-white film from Ilford Photo with extended sensitivity into the near-infrared at 740 nm. It can be used as a panchromatic film on its own, or with different red/infrared filters to give varying levels of the effect seen in i ...
, a photographic film
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Serial Femtosecond Crystallography Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) is a form of X-ray crystallography developed for use at X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs). Single pulses at free-electron lasers are bright enough to generate resolvable Bragg diffraction from sub-micron cr ...
FX (disambiguation)
FX, F-X, F/X, Fx, fx, or ''variation'', may refer to:
People
Arts, entertainment, and media Effects
Fx, effects, as in:
* Effects unit, Guitar effects
* Sound effects
* Special effects
Music Groups and labels
* f(x) (group), South Korean girl g ...
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St. Francis Xavier (disambiguation) St. Francis Xavier (1506–1552) is a Catholic saint.
St. Francis Xavier may also refer to:
Places
* St. François Xavier, Manitoba, Canada
* Saint-François-Xavier, Paris, France, a church
** Saint-François-Xavier (Paris Métro)
* San Francis ...