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A spoiler is an element of a disseminated summary or description of a media narrative that reveals significant plot elements, with the implication that the experience of discovering the plot naturally, as the creator intended it, has been robbed ("spoiled") of its full effect.
Wikipedia articles may include spoilers and no spoiler warnings. A spoiler is a piece of information about a narrative work (such as a book, film, television series, or a video game) that reveals plot points or twists. Articles on the Internet sometimes feature a spoiler warning to alert readers to spoilers in the text, which they may then ...
Spoiler effect, where the entry of a losing (irrelevant) candidate affects the results of an election; Spoiler effect (sports), where teams eliminated from playoffs can affect other teams in the league as they play
Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms) Lists of dictionaries cover general and specialized dictionaries, collections of words in one or more specific languages, and collections of terms in specialist fields. They are organized by language, specialty and other properties.
Anyway, it might be worth to add a note, to at least made people stop thinking that trimester genericly means 1/3 year. By the way, the same is true for semester: due to the similarity of the first syllables to latin "semi" (=half), it is understood as meaning half a year, although it litarally means six months (se-mestris).
In social choice theory and politics, a spoiler effect happens when a losing candidate affects the results of an election simply by participating. [1] [2] Voting rules that are not affected by spoilers are said to be spoilerproof. [3] [4] The frequency and severity of spoiler effects depends substantially on the voting method.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Depending on what you consider a spoiler, the whole damn thing could be. The contextual definition of the word "spoiler" is well-established. I have seen the tags misapplied, just as most of our templates are occasionally misused. The solution is to remove these specific instances, not all of them throughout the site.