Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To happen as a consequence: synonym: follow.
  • intransitive verb To end in a particular way.
  • noun Something that follows naturally from a particular action, operation, or course; a consequence or outcome. synonym: effect.
  • noun Favorable or desired outcomes.
  • noun Mathematics The quantity or expression obtained by calculation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To leap back; rebound; leap again.
  • To proceed, spring, or rise as a consequence from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, etc.; be the outcome; be the final term in a connected series of events, operations, etc.
  • To have an issue; terminate: followed by in.
  • To decree; determine, as an ecclesiastical council.
  • noun The act of leaping, springing, or flying back; resilience.
  • noun Consequence; conclusion: outcome; issue; effect: that which proceeds naturally or logically from facts, premises, or the state of things: as, the result of reasoning; the result of reflection; the result of a consultation; the result of a certain procedure or effect.
  • noun The final decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; resolution: as, the result of an ecclesiastical council.
  • noun In mathematics, a quantity, value, or expression ascertained by calculation.
  • noun Synonyms Consequence, etc. (see effect), event, termination, end, upshot, consummation, see resultant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To leap back; to rebound.
  • intransitive verb To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in.
  • intransitive verb To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor.
  • intransitive verb (Law) a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party granting an estate. The phrase is also applied to a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party who advances the purchase money of an estate, etc.
  • intransitive verb (Law) a use which, being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and thence returns to him who raised it.
  • noun obsolete A flying back; resilience.
  • noun That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect.
  • noun The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To proceed, spring or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.
  • verb To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil.
  • verb law To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion
  • noun That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect; as, the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation.
  • noun The fruit, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
  • noun sports The final score in a game.
  • noun by extension A positive or favourable outcome for someone.
  • interjection UK An exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
  • noun a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
  • noun the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause
  • verb have as a result or residue
  • verb come about or follow as a consequence
  • verb issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end
  • noun something that results

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English resulten, from Medieval Latin resultāre, from Latin, to leap back, frequentative of resilīre : re-, re- + salīre, to leap; see sel- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Recorded since 1432, Middle English, from Medieval Latin resultare, in Classical Latin "to spring forward, rebound", the frequentative of the past participle of resilio ("to rebound"), from re- ("back") + salio ("to jump, leap")

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Examples

  • Pundits said the decadence was the result of disillusion over Vietnam and Watergate; cynics said it was the ­result of too much money pursuing too much free time.

    Days of ‘Malaise’ 2009

  • Pundits said the decadence was the result of disillusion over Vietnam and Watergate; cynics said it was the ­result of too much money pursuing too much free time.

    Days of ‘Malaise’ 2009

  • When you log into your Google accountand you need to have one for thisyou can move a search result up using an up arrow button, get rid of a result with an X button, or suggest another listing with an “Add a result” link at the bottom of the search results page.

    Internet News: Social Search Archives 2009

  • When you log into your Google accountand you need to have one for thisyou can move a search result up using an up arrow button, get rid of a result with an X button, or suggest another listing with an “Add a result” link at the bottom of the search results page.

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  • $expected must be a well-formed block of HTML. capture (\&function, ...) - > ($text, $result) Invokes a function while grabbing stdout, so the "http response" doesn't flood the console that you're running the unit test from, and you can analyse the result in your test function.

    TWiki.Codev 2009

  • #find the checksum of string_data string_data = "0123456789abcdef" cksum = checksum (string_data) the checksum will be sum of 01+23+45+ ... +ef (adding each byte) then next result = ~result and finally result = result+1 def checksum (data): return result my main problem is the addition what should i do?? thanks

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community 2009

  • $result = mysql_fetch_array ($sql); [Loop end] repeat 3,4 until you get X total number of result this will get you 600% faster than using Solution 3 for multiple row selection good technique until now i do not know that it has 4 types of solutinos the 4th query is great as far as prrformence is concerned

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  • i = 1 fname = ` date +\%F-\%H\%M ` result = 1 while [$result = 1]; do echo Attempt $i "$fname". flv trap "echo User killing the download; exit" INT TERM youtube-dl $1 - o "$fname". flv result = $? let i = i+1 if [$result = 1]; then sleep 10 fi done

    Planet MYOSS 2008

  • i = 1 fname = ` date +\%F-\%H\%M ` result = 1 while [$result = 1]; do echo Attempt $i "$fname". flv trap "echo User killing the download; exit" INT TERM youtube-dl $1 - o "$fname". flv result = $? let i = i+1 if [$result = 1]; then sleep 10 fi done

    Planet MYOSS 2008

  • i = 1 fname = ` date +\%F-\%H\%M ` result = 1 while [$result = 1]; do echo Attempt $i "$fname". flv trap "echo User killing the download; exit" INT TERM youtube-dl $1 - o "$fname". flv result = $? let i = i+1 if [$result = 1]; then sleep 10 fi done

    Planet MYOSS 2008

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