Definitions

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

  • adjective Issuing or following as a consequence or result.
  • noun Something that results; an outcome.
  • noun Mathematics A single vector that is the equivalent of a set of vectors.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Existing or following as a result or consequence; especially, resulting from the combination of two or more agents: as, a resultant motion produced by two forces. See diagram under force, 8.
  • noun That which results or follows as a consequence or outcome.
  • noun Synonyms Result, Resultant. A result may proceed from one cause or from the combination of any number of causes. There has been of late a rapid increase in the use of resultant in a sense secondary to its physical one—namely, to represent that which is the result of a complex of moral forces, and would be precisely the result of no one of them acting alone.

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

  • adjective Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence.
  • adjective (Mech.) a force which is the result of two or more forces acting conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more motions combined. See Composition of forces, under Composition.
  • noun (Mech.) A reultant force or motion.
  • noun (Math.) An eliminant.

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

  • adjective following as a result or consequence of something
  • noun anything that results from something else; an outcome
  • noun mathematics a vector that is the vector sum of multiple vectors

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

  • adjective following or accompanying as a consequence
  • noun a vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors
  • noun the final point in a process
  • noun something that results

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Examples

  • It was found chemically that cane sugar absorbs the elements of water and changes into a mixture of two different sugars, one being weakly dextrorotatory and the other strongly laevorotatory, hence the resultant is a rotation to the left.

    Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture 1966

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  • As far as anyone can demonstrate, the brain changes were simply resultant from a causal chain of physical events.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • As far as anyone can demonstrate, the brain changes were simply resultant from a causal chain of physical events.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • As far as anyone can demonstrate, the brain changes were simply resultant from a causal chain of physical events.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • Superdelegates must realize based on the exit polls that the majority of his votes are resultant is based on race, not his stand on policies.

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  • The injuries were simply resultant from the use of his great strength, always so far superior to that of the men opposed to him.

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  • The injuries were simply resultant from the use of his great strength, always so far superior to that of the men opposed to him.

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  • It countermands any specious defences of appropriation when applied to marginal culture that pivot on the double standard, allowing us to point to the precise effects of misrepresentation and discrimination that are resultant from the appropriation, and allows us to challenge the appropriation on a level of legtimacy that is not hamstrung by an implicit privileging.

    More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

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