Resultant
//ɹɪˈzʌltənt// adj, noun
adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Anything that results from something else; an outcome.
"2022, Charles Howard Hinton, The Fourth Dimension And our logic is simply spatiality in the general sense — that resultant of a selection of the permanent from the unpermanent, the ordered from the unordered, by the means of the group and its underlying duality."
- 2 a vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors wordnet
- 3 A vector that is the vector sum of multiple vectors.
- 4 something that results wordnet
- 5 the final point in a process wordnet
Adjective
- 1 Following as a result or consequence of something; resulting. not-comparable
Adjective
- 1 occurring with or following as a consequence wordnet
Example
More examples"The police force launched a multimedia campaign and community outreach program to facilitate the recruitment of applicants from minority communities, so that the resultant force would better reflect the ethnic and cultural makeup of the population it serves."
Etymology
From Latin resultāns, present participle of resultō.
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