attendant. 1  n a person who is present and participates in a meeting. 2  n an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another. 3  n someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another. 4  adj being present (at meeting or event etc.) attendant members of the congreation.
In simple terms, affect means 'make a difference to', whereas effect means 'a result' or 'bring about a result' here are some excerpts from a dictionary. 1  To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.  To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
First, bear in mind that there are two words spelled affect. One means to put on a false show of, as in She affected a British accent. The other affect, the one that is confused with effect, is both a noun and a verb. It is pronounced with stress on the first syllable rather than the second. Note that affect does not have a noun sense meaning an influence that brings about a change.. As a verb, affect is most commonly used in the sense of to cause a change in: the ways in which smoking affects health. The verb effect means to bring about or execute: medical treatment designed to effect a cure.