result

Dictionary: re·sult (rĭ-zŭlt') pronunciation

intr.v., -sult·ed, -sult·ing, -sults.

To come about as a consequence. See synonyms at follow.
To end in a particular way: Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy.

1. The consequence of a particular action, operation, or course; an outcome. See synonyms at effect.
2. A favorable or concrete outcome or effect. Often used in the plural: started studying and got immediate results.
Mathematics. The quantity or expression obtained by calculation.

[Middle English resulten, from Medieval Latin resultāre, from Latin, to leap back, frequentative of resilīre : re-, re- + salīre, to leap.]

resultful re·sult'ful adj.
resultfulness re·sult'ful·ness n.
resultless re·sult'less adj.

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Something brought about by a cause: aftermath, consequence, corollary, effect, end product, event, fruit, harvest, issue, outcome, precipitate, ramification, resultant, sequel, sequence, sequent, upshot. See cause/effect.
Something worked out to explain, resolve, or provide a method for dealing with and settling a problem: answer, determination, solution. See ask/answer.

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Definition: effect brought about by something
Antonyms: cause, source

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Definition: happen, develop
Antonyms: cause

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IN BRIEF: Something that comes about as an effect or end.

Success as I see it, is a result, not a goal. — Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

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This article may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help. The discussion page may contain suggestions. (May 2009)

A result is the final consequence of a sequence of actions or events expressed qualitatively or quantitatively. Possible results include advantage, disadvantage, gain, injury, loss, value and victory. There may be a range of possible outcomes associated with an event depending on the point of view, historical distance or relevance. Reaching no result can mean that actions are inefficient, ineffective, meaningless or flawed.

Some types of result are as follows:

in general, the outcome of any kind of research, action or phenomenon
in games (e.g. cricket, lotteries) or wars, the result includes the identity of the victorious party and possibly the effects on the environment
in mathematics, the final value of a calculation (e.g. arithmetic operation), function or statistical expression
in statistics, any information analyzed, extracted or interpolated from polls, tests or logs
in computer sciences, the return value of a function, state of a system or list of records matching a query (e.g. web search). The result type is the data type of the data returned by a function.
in science, the outcome of an experiment (e.g see null hypothesis)
in forensics and justice, the proof of guilt or innocence of a suspect after evaluating evidence in a criminal investigation
in economics and accounting, the profit or loss at the end of a fiscal period. (See also: Net operating result.)
in democracy, the election of a representative or the outcome of a vote on a subject

In management

In management and related fields, a result is a piece of information that has certain properties in absolute terms or in relation to previous results or settings:

	impact
	positive (+)	neutral (0)	negative (-)
profitability	profit	balance	loss
contest	win	tie	loss
confrontation	victory	armistice	defeat
competition	success	no change	failure
change	increase	stagnation	decrease
causality	direct	random	indirect
reliability	reliable	undetermined	unreliable
credibility	confirmed / verified	unknown	denied / falsified
consistency	consistent	equivalent	inconsistent
sensitivity	public / open	unclassified	classified / secret
accuracy	accurate / true	undefined / null	inaccurate / false
relevance	important	normal	negligible / meaningless

In quality assurance

In quality assurance the following formula is sometimes used:

result = quality * acceptance

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