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resultant

adj · noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /ɹɪˈzʌltənt/
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1

adj

Meaning 1

Following as a result or consequence of something; resulting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Anything that results from something else; an outcome.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A vector that is the vector sum of multiple vectors.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: mathematics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

following or accompanying as a consequence

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems
  • snags incidental to the changeover in management
  • attendant circumstances
  • the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness
  • the ensuant response to his appeal
  • the resultant savings were considerable

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: attendant, consequent, accompanying, concomitant, incidental, ensuant, sequent

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

a vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: vector sum

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: vector

6

noun

Meaning 6

something that results

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he listened for the results on the radio

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: result, final result, outcome, termination

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: ending, conclusion, finish

Narrower terms: denouement, deal, decision, consequence, aftermath, poetic justice, just deserts, separation, sequel, subsequence, worst

7

noun

Meaning 7

the final point in a process

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: end point

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: degree, level, stage, point

History

Etymology

From Latin resultāns, present participle of resultō.

Across languages

Translations

12 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مُحَصَّل — following as a result or consequence of something
  • Bulgarian: произлизащ (proizlizašt) — following as a result or consequence of something
  • Bulgarian: произтичащ (proiztičašt) — following as a result or consequence of something
  • Czech: výsledný — following as a result or consequence of something
  • Indonesian: resultan — following as a result or consequence of something
  • Manx: eiyrtysagh — following as a result or consequence of something
  • Manx: cohoyrtysagh — following as a result or consequence of something
  • Polish: wynikający — following as a result or consequence of something
  • Polish: wynikły — following as a result or consequence of something
  • Polish: wypadkowy — following as a result or consequence of something
  • Romanian: rezultant — following as a result or consequence of something
  • Turkish: bileşke — following as a result or consequence of something