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Definitions: Resultant |
ResultantAdjective1. Following as an effect or result; "the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness"; "the ensuant response to his appeal"; "the resultant savings were considerable"; "the health of the plants and the resulting flowers". Noun1. The final point in a process. 2. Something that results; "he listened for the results on the radio". 3. A vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "resultant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
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Aerospace | The sum of two or more vectors. (references) |
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Synonyms: ResultantSynonyms: consequent (adj), ensuant (adj), resulting(a) (adj), sequent (adj), end point (n), outcome (n), result (n), vector sum (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combination | Alloy, compound, amalgam, composition, tertium quid; resultant, impregnation. |
Effect | Noun: effect, consequence; aftergrowth, aftercome; derivative, derivation; result; resultant, resultance; upshot, issue, denouement; end; development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud. |
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Health | STS, too, has a substantial false positive rate, leading to discarding blood and rejecting the donor with resultant distress. (references) | |
The long-term effects of radiation therapy to the head and neck region include obliterative endarteritis with resultant tissue ischemia and soft tissue fibrosis. (references) | ||
The growing individual and societal awareness and open acknowledgment of the problem have led to increased interest and resultant explosion of knowledge in each of these areas. (references) | ||
Business | The country voluntarily reduced production in 1998 because of the global slump in economic activity and resultant low oil prices. (references) | |
The venue of arbitration is required to be within the UAE, and if not, the resultant award is to be treated like a foreign judgment. (references) | ||
As the political situation in Northern Ireland stabilizes, the growth in this cooperation should increase with a resultant boost in tourism. (references) | ||
Economic History | Austria | Resultant economic and political conditions led in 1933 to a dictatorship under Engelbert Dollfuss. (references) |
Uk | Typically, resultant regulations affect working patterns, wage structures, and employee protection rights. (references) | |
Kenya | The company has similar management and operational problems as other parastatals with resultant deterioration of services. (references) | |
Political Economy | AUSTRALIA | The resultant improvement in the labor market has seen unemployment fall below seven percent for the first time in a decade, with little hint of wage inflation. (references) |
NORWAY | They complain about the unauthorized reproduction of furniture and appliance designs and the sale of the resultant goods in other countries, with no compensation to the Norwegian innovator. (references) | |
Argentina | The rapidly deteriorating economy and a resultant loss of confidence in the national government led Alfonsin to leave office five months early, allowing Menem to assume office in July 1989. This was Argentina's first transfer of power between democratically elected leaders in more than sixty years. (references) | |
Travel | Uk | Lines of cars waiting at gas stations caused major traffic jams throughout the UK Further protest and resultant disruptions - even to tourists - cannot be ruled out if there is continued concern about high fuel prices. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Resultant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 91.99% of the time. "Resultant" is used about 312 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 91.99% | 287 | 17,188 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.01% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 312 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "resultant": resultant force ♦ resultant linear density ♦ resultant motion. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
force resultant | 3 |
resultant | 3 |
resultant vector | 2 |
policy resultant set | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "resultant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rezultues (consequent, Sequent), rezultate (effect), që del si përfundim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محصل (receiver), ناتج (consequent, eventual), ناشئ (birth, budding, nascent), حاصلة, المحصلة القوة المحصلة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сумарен (aggregate, summary), резултатна сила, равнодействуващ, противодействуваща сила, произтичащ (emanative, ensuing, incident, incidental). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 总值. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | výsledný. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | resultant (centroid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | resultante (resultant force), vervangingskracht (resultant force). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | منتجه , منتج شونده , حاصل (Growth, Harvest, Heir, Outcome, Outgrwth, Perquisite, Product, Result, Resume, Upshot, Yield), برایند (Consequent), بردار (Vector). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | resultantti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | résultante, résultant (resulting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Resultante (resultant force), resultierend (resulting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνιστάμενη, συνισταμένη, επακόλουθοσ (consequential, sequential), επακόλουθο (after effect, aftereffect, aftermath, consequence, sequel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | származó (deriving, resumptive), eredő (saturnine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | dihasilkan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | risultante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 合力 (alms, assistance, Buddhist almsgiving, contribution, co-operation, Herculean strength, resultant force), 合成力 (resultant force). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ごうせいりょく (resultant force), ごうりょく (co-operation, Herculean strength, resultant force). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 합성되는. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | eiyrtysagh (copier, copier of person, imitator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esultantray resultante. (various references) равнодействующий. (various references) rezultanta, proističući, koji proizlazi. (various references) resultante (consequential). (various references) resulterande (resulted, resulting), resultant. (various references) sonuç olarak çıkan, sonuç (aftermath, close, conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, decision, deduction, denouement, effect, end, event, finding, fruit, harvest, inference, issue, joy, outcome, payoff, produce, product, result, sequel, show, success, sum, upshot), meydana gelen, bileşke, çıkan (outgoing, rising, subtrahend). (various references) рівнодіюча сила, рівнодіючий, що випливає (sequential). (various references) hợp lực. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "resultant": resultantly, resultants. (additional references) | |
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"Resultant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: resultan, resultans. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "resultant" (pronounced rēzu"ltunt) |
| 7 | -z u" l t u n t | exultant. |
| 6 | -u" l t u n t | consultant. |
| 4 | -t u n t | accountant, adjutant, assistant, blatant, combatant, competent, concomitant, consistent, constant, contestant, decongestant, disinfectant, distant, existent, exorbitant, expectant, extant, hesitant, important, impotent, inadvertent, incompetent, inconsistent, inhabitant, insistent, instant, intermittent, irritant, latent, militant, mutant, noncombatant, nonexistent, omnipotent, patent, penitent, persistent, pollutant, potent, protestant, reluctant, repentant, resistant, surfactant, unimportant, unrepentant. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consonant, constituent, containment, contaminant, contentment, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insolent, insolvent, installment, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, nascent, negligent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, pennant, percipient, permanent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, postponement, postretirement, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unpleasant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: lustrate, neutrals, slattern, taunters, tutelars. | |
-2 letters: antlers, attunes, eluants, entrust, estrual, latents, lattens, natters, natures, neutral, nutates, nutlets, nutters, rattens, rattles, rentals, runlets, saltern, saluter, saunter, starlet, startle, stature, sternal, talents, taunter, tautens, tetanus, truants, turtles, tutelar, unstate. | |
-3 letters: alerts, alters, antler, antres, artels, astern, astute, attune, eluant, estral, laster, latens, latent, latest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: neutralist, resultants, turntables. | |
+2 letters: adulterants, laundrettes, neutralists, resultantly, strangulate, tranquilest, translucent. | |
+3 letters: counterblast, curtailments, elutriations, entablatures, instrumental, launderettes, neutralistic, neutralities, reluctations, strangulated, strangulates, tranquillest, transmutable, transvaluate, triangulates, untranslated. | |
+4 letters: adulterations, battlegrounds, congratulates, counterblasts, inarticulates, instrumentals, multistranded, restimulating, restimulation, reticulations, supermilitant, tranquilities, translucently, transvaluated, transvaluates, ultradistance, ultramontanes, understatedly. | |
+5 letters: antifilibuster, articulateness, counterassault, instrumentally, interfaculties, intermenstrual, intersexuality, restimulations, reutilizations, tranquillities, transsexuality, ultradistances, ultramodernist, ultrasensitive, untranslatable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 73 75 6C 74 61 6E 74 |
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