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noun Ecology.

the tendency toward greater variety and density of plant and animal populations in an ecotone.

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Origin of edge effect

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby edge effect

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How to use edge effect in a sentence

This is a useful method that’s worked for a long time, but it still requires extra processing power on top of rendering a game at high resolutions to minimize the jagged edge effects.
The graphics settings that actually matter for video games (and what they do)|John Kennedy|July 8, 2021|Popular-Science
At the same time, they more than doubled their lattice’s size compared to earlier efforts, so that they could study hadrons’ behavior near the center of the lattice without worrying about edge effects.
‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles|Natalie Wolchover|April 7, 2021|Quanta Magazine

Scientific definitions for edge effect

edge effect

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The influence that two ecological communities have on each other along the boundary (called the ecotone) that separates them. Because such an area contains habitats common to both communities as well as others unique to the transition zone itself, the edge effect is typically characterized by greater species diversity and population density than occur in either of the individual communities.