affect meaning
EN
[əˈfɛkt] [-ɛkt] [ˈæfɛkt] 
UK WAffect
- Affect may refer to:
- Affect (linguistics), the grammar of expressing affect
- Affect (philosophy)
- Affect (psychology)
- Affect display, signs of emotion, such as facial expression, vocalization, and posture
- Affect theory
- Affective science, the scientific study of emotion
- Blunted affect or affective flattening, a reduction in emotional reactivity
- Labile affect, the unstable display of emotion
- Affected accent, see Accent (sociolinguistics)
- Affective computing, an area of research in computer science aiming to understand the emotional state of users
FR affect 
- NounPLaffects
- OBS One's mood or inclination; mental state.
- OBS A desire, an appetite.
- (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
- OBS One's mood or inclination; mental state.
- VerbSGaffectsPRaffectingPT, PPaffected
- VT To influence or alter.
- The experience affected me deeply.
- The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction.
- VT To move to emotion.
- He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.
- VT Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
- Hepatitis affects the liver.
- VT (archaic) To dispose or incline.
- VT (archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
- VT (archaic) To assign; to appoint.
- OBS VT To aim for, to try to obtain.
- VT (now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
- VT OBS To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
- VT To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.
- to affect ignorance
- He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable.
- VT To influence or alter.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- WES in soybean has also been used to identify unwanted intracultivar genetic heterogeneity in the exome that may affect the plant’s phenotype (Haun et al. 2011).
- Oil is denominated in dollars, so changes in the strength of the dollar affect oil prices everywhere.
- These results implicate an evolutionarily conserved pathway integrating metabolic information with bioamine signaling affecting feeding behavior.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Examination at age 52 demonstrated a pseudobulbar affect.
- The appearance, yield, storability, and mechanical harvestability are seriously affected.
- Perineuronal oligodendrocytes have been identified in later studies as the subtype of oligodendrocytic cell affected.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of affect in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
- en affection
- fr affection
- en affected
- en affectionate
- en affections
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "affect" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.