Result

Part of speech: noun, verb

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzʌlt/

Definitions

1. A consequence or outcome that follows from an action, process, or condition
2. A consequence that arises from particular actions, events, or conditions is known as an outcome that can occur due to various circumstances
3. An outcome that emerges from a specific action, situation, or process can be understood as the consequence that follows accordingly

Etymology: The verb "result" once meant something physical: in Classical Latin, "resultare" described something springing back or rebounding, like a ball bouncing off a wall. The word is a frequentative form of the past participle of "resilio", "to rebound", which combines "re-" (back) with "salio" (to jump or leap). Its ancestry is therefore a picture of recoil, not of conclusions. The English word entered the language in the 15th century, first recorded in 1432 as the Middle English "resulten", borrowed through Medieval Latin "resultare". For its first centuries in English it kept a sense of something rebounding or flowing back from an action, and only later took on the modern idea of an outcome that follows from a cause.

Synonyms: outcome, consequence, effect, finding, conclusion

Antonyms: cause, origin, source