MEANING
1. Produced as a consequence of an earlier event or combination of conditions.
2. A single quantity with size and direction that combines two or more such quantities.
Use it for
identifying an outcome caused by a stated change; linking a policy to its consequences; distinguishing an effect from a merely subsequent eventNames an asserted consequence and separately labels a combined directional quantity. Academic functions: Causation / Relationships, Significance / Scope.
Words that belong together
- resultant changes
- resultant costs
- resultant outcome
On the page
The analysis separates the initial price shock from the resultant changes in household spending.
The critic links the narrative’s shifting perspective to the resultant uncertainty about the witness’s account.
The resultant force is zero when the two equal forces act in opposite directions.
The diagram shows the resultant displacement rather than the total distance traveled.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- resultant
Usage notes
Adjective, usually before a noun: resultant changes. Count noun: resultant, resultants, for a combined vector or an outcome. No routine adjective comparison. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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