SFX may refer to:

Entertainment

Special effect Special effects (often abbreviated as 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 fictional events in a story or virtual world. ...

s (usually visual), illusions used in film, television, and entertainment *

Sound effect A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media. In m ...

s, sounds that are artificially created or enhanced * ''SFX'' (magazine), a British magazine covering the topics of science fiction and fantasy * SFX (Science Fiction Expo), a convention in Toronto, Canada *

SFX Entertainment LiveStyle, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based live events conglomerate founded by media entrepreneur Robert F. X. Sillerman. The company was formed in June 2012 as SFX Entertainment—the new incarnation of Sillerman's previous company of the same nam ...

, American promoter * ''S-F-X'' (album), a 1984 album by Haruomi Hosono * SFX, a prototype

Super NES The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly shortened to Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Oceania a ...

video game console *

Super FX The Super FX is a coprocessor on the Graphics Support Unit (GSU) added to select Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) video game ROM cartridge, cartridges, primarily to facilitate advanced 2D and 3D graphics. The Super FX chip was design ...

, a coprocessor chip used in some Super NES video game cartridges * Use in comics of

onomatopoeic Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Common onomatopoeias in English include animal noises such as ''oink'', '' ...

, conventions to convey sound events accompanying visuals and dialogue

Computing

Self-extracting archive A self-extracting archive (SFX or SEA) is a computer executable program which combines compressed data in an archive file with machine-executable code to extract the information. Running on a compatible operating system, it does not need a ...

, a compressed file with an embedded executable to decompress itself *

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 Bel ...

, an OpenURL link server * SFX (PSU), a design for a small form factor (SFF) power supply casing *

Small form factor PC Small form factor (SFF) is a classification of desktop computers and for some of their components, chassis and motherboard, to indicate that they are designed in accordance with one of several standardized form factors intended to minimize the vo ...

, a term covering smaller-than traditional form factors for computer components *

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 a ...

, a web-browser promotion * SquirrelFish Extreme, a JavaScript engine for WebKit; see SquirrelFish Extreme

Other

Audio signal processing Audio signal processing is a subfield of signal processing that is concerned with the electronic manipulation of audio signals. Audio signals are electronic representations of sound waves—longitudinal waves which travel through air, consisting ...

, effects * Ilford SFX, a photographic film * Serial Femtosecond Crystallography, X-ray free-electron laser-based laboratory technique *

SFX Coaster SFX Coasters are a model line of high-technology steel roller coasters designed and offered by Dynamic Attractions. Aimed to mix a thrilling roller coaster experience with complex and highly innovative show sequences, the coaster was signed off ...

, a

steel roller coaster A steel roller coaster is a type of roller coaster classified by its steel Railway track, track, which consists of long steel tubes that are run in pairs, supported by larger steel columns or beams. Trains running along the track typically rely ...

model manufactured by

Dynamic Attractions Dynamic Structures of the World is a Canadian company with a history of steel fabrication dating back to 1927. They create amusement rides, theme park rides, observatory telescopes and other complex steel structures. History Dynamic Structures' ...

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