SFX
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SFX may refer to:
- Special effectSpecial effectThe illusions used in the film, television, theatre, or entertainment industries to simulate the imagined events in a story are traditionally called special effects ....
(s), illusions used in film, television and entertainment - Sound effectSound effectFor the album by The Jam, see Sound Affects.Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media...
, artificially created or enhanced sounds - Onomatopoeias in comics are referred to as "SFX" or "sound effects"
- SFX (magazine), a science fiction magazine
- SFX (Science Fiction Expo)SFX (Science Fiction Expo)SFX is a convention in Toronto, Canada. The convention began as a featured event of the Canadian National Expo, now known as Fan Expo Canada. SFX was first added in 1999 and the name is a slang acronym, standing loosely for Science Fiction Exposition. It was the second featured event ever added to...
, a science fiction convention in Toronto, Canada - SFX (group), a psychedelic trance musical band that changed their name to Astral Projection
- SFX (software)SFX (software)SFX was the first OpenURL link resolver or link server. It remains the most widely-used OpenURL resolver, being used by over 1,500 libraries.Librarians Herbert van de Sompel, Patrick Hochstenbach and their colleagues at Ghent University in Belgium developed the OpenURL framework from 1998 to 2000....
, an OpenURL link server - SFX Entertainment, a music promotion company owned by Live NationLive NationLive Nation is a live-events company based in Beverly Hills, California, focused on concert promotions. Live Nation formed in 2005 as a spin-off from Clear Channel Communications, which then merged with Ticketmaster in 2010 to become Live Nation Entertainment....
- S·F·XS·F·X- CD reissue :-Personnel:*Haruomi Hosono - vocals, lyrics, synthesizer, engineer*Miharu Koshi - vocals*Curtis Knapp - vocals*Makoto Kubota - vocals*Sandii - vocals*Yasuhiko Terada - engineer*Takashi Itoh - engineer*Matsutoshi Nishimura - bass...
, a 1984 album by Japanese electronic artist Haruomi Hosono - Self-extracting archiveSelf-extracting archiveA self-extracting archive is a computer application which contains a file archive, as well as programming to extract this information. Such file archives do not require a second executable file or program to extract from the archive, as archive files usually require...
(SFX), a compressed file with an embedded executable to decompress itself - Spread Firefox, a campaign to encourage the use of Mozilla Firefox
- SquirrelFish Extreme, a JavaScript engine for WebKit
- Ilford SFXIlford SFXSFX is a black-and-white film from Ilford Photo with extended sensitivity into the near-infrared at 740nm. 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 infrared photography; i.e dark skies and bright plant...
, a photographic film - Super FXSuper FXThe Super FX is a coprocessor chip used in select Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game cartridges. This custom-made RISC processor was typically programmed to act like a graphics accelerator chip that would draw polygons to a frame buffer in the RAM that sat adjacent to it...
, a coprocessor chip used in some Super Nintendo video game cartridges - SFX (PSU) a form factor for a power supply unitPower supply unit (computer)A power supply unit converts mains AC to low-voltage regulated DC power for the internal components of the computer. Modern personal computers universally use a switched-mode power supply...
for PCs