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special effects

 
noun

Translation

an unusual type of action in a film, or an entertainment on stage, created by using special equipment
özel efektler
The new Harry Potter film includes some very frightening special effects.1466
(Definition of special effects noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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