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resultant

  • /ɹɪˈzʌltənt/

Where it comes from

From Latin resultāns, present participle of resultō.

adjective

  1. not comparable Following as a result or consequence of something; resulting.

noun resultants

  1. Anything that results from something else; an outcome. 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.
  2. A vector that is the vector sum of multiple vectors.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: consequent, resulting, ensuant, sequent, subsequent, vector sum, end point, consequential, consequence, ensuing, outcome, result, consecutive, therefrom, consistent, corresponding

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adj following as a result or consequence of something

Românărezultant
العربيةمُحَصَّل muḥaṣṣal

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"resultant." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/resultant. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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resultant. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/resultant

Chicago

"resultant." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/resultant.

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@misc{resultant_2026,
  title = {resultant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/resultant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}