Mag·nus effect 
(măgnəs)
(măgnəs)n.
The force perpendicular to the forward motion on a spinning object moving through a fluid or gas, as that responsible for the curve on a curve ball.
[After Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802-1870), German chemist and physicist.]
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