The phrase "affects meaning" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how something influences or changes the interpretation of a word, phrase, or text.
Example: "The context in which a word is used significantly affects meaning, leading to different interpretations."
Alternatives: "influences interpretation" or "shapes understanding".
"I'm not sure how much she was personally affected, meaning her home, by the reactor.
Media companies, many of which have invested heavily in Facebook as a platform for video, are also affected, meaning many of their calculations about how content performs on the platform will be inaccurate.
Nearly 1,500 properties along the Beltway and I-270 would be "directly affected," meaning they would lose parts of backyards or other land, either permanently or temporarily during construction.
However, up to nearly 1,500 properties along both highways would be "directly affected," meaning they would lose parts of backyards or other land, either permanently or temporarily during construction.
And while they found that permeation rates for the membranes decrease exponentially with decreasing sieve size, they also report that water transport itself is only "weakly affected" — meaning the filtered water flows through the membrane relatively quickly; an important factor if the aim is to develop affordable desalination technology.
And while they found that permeation rates for the membranes decrease exponentially with decreasing sieve size, they also report that water transport itself is only "weakly affected" — meaning the filtered water flows through the membrane relatively quickly; an important factor if the aim is to develop affordable desalination technology.
I belong to those who want to place this [idea] with health actually outside health care, because a great deal of it has to do with things that I believe lay outside our, both competence and possibility to affect, meaning all the social aspects, relationships and such The demarcater is unwilling to take on a health promotion role.
And Ward says her work suggested it was the corals that had bleached the previous year that were affected, meaning they appeared to have been weakened by the earlier event and made more susceptible to further bleaching.
