resultant
- noun
- /rɪˈzʌltənt/
- The resultant is $109.3 billion per year in budget cuts, which will be divided equally between the "national defense" budget and all other budget areas.
Examples
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Then calls is PAL to find out whether or not the resultant list is a palindrome.
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The two lines cross way over here, but the resultant is perfectly symmetrical.
Fiction book (1991) -
And then it calls field dot move with the resultant point and in this case one.
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Newton's is the magnitude of our resultant force.
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For example, in Figure 1, different pairs of "force vectors" appeared on the screen with a sequence of frames to indicate their combination into a "resultant."
Academic text (2000) -
Thus, these two types of groups differ according to their degree of cohesiveness, which Festinger (1950) defined as "the resultant of all the forces acting on members to remain in the group" (p. 272).
Academic text (2003) -
It is the objective resultant of every individual's subjective valuations and voluntary actions, and is therefore the only existent objective criterion for "quantitative justice" in pricing.
Blog text (16) -
The resultant from the experiment showed a surprising increase in productivity.
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After numerous discussions, the committee reached a consensus, and the resultant was a new policy.
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The engineer calculated the resultant of the forces acting on the bridge to ensure its stability.
Synonyms
The outcome of an action or event
A result of an action or event
The result of an action or event
The amount a person, machine, or factory makes
A final thing made after a process, like a machine or medicine
The place or moment when something finishes
Compounds
How Final
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Resultant comes from the same root as the common word result, from Latin re- 'back' and sult- 'to jump', giving the idea of something that 'comes out' at the end. So a resultant is the final outcome you reach after a process.