Definition of resultant
: derived from or resulting from something else
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Examples of resultant in a Sentence
She deserves credit for the increase in sales and the resultant increase in profit.
frequent trips to the ice cream parlor and the resultant weight gain were starting to affect my tennis game
Recent Examples of resultant from the Web
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His batting average slipped to a still-impressive .294, and that was largely resultant of BABIP normalization.
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Kelly's ham-handed handling of the Rob Porter debacle and the resultant news coverage clearly knocked him down several pegs in Trump's eyes.
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Pjanic drilled the resultant penalty straight into the centre of the net to give Juve a 1-0 lead on the night and a 2-0 lead on aggregate.
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As anyone with a chronic illness knows, talking about your health—and fielding the resultant questions—can be an exhausting, vulnerable act.
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In fact, multiple Coldplay songs were utilized during the competition, and each saw resultant gains.
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This means the resultant effects are often limited to degraded water quality, loss of aquatic habitat and excess reservoir sedimentation.
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In one recent work here, painted in a leporello (that is, a book whose pages are folded into one another accordion-style), calligraphic black stripes grow denser and denser from page to page, and the resultant blackout has the weight of history.
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Blatting around in an F-type, gratuitously downshifting just to trigger the resultant litany of pops and cracks from the exhaust, is about as subtle as leaping around your front lawn in your birthday suit and firing a six-shooter at the heavens.
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First Known Use of resultant
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resultant Synonyms
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Examples of resultant in a Sentence
a person's decision to purchase a certain automobile is often the resultant of an array of factors, ranging from the actual performance of the vehicle to the buyer's self-image
First Known Use of resultant
1692
resultant Synonyms
Synonyms
aftereffect, aftermath, backwash, child, conclusion, consequence, corollary, development, effect, fate, fruit, issue, outcome, outgrowth, product, result, sequel, sequence, upshot;
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Near Antonyms
consideration, determinant, factor;
base, basis, foundation, ground, groundwork;
Related Words
denouement (also dénouement), echo, implication, repercussion;
afterclap, afterglow, aftershock;
by-product, fallout, offshoot, ripple, side effect (also side reaction), spin-off;
Phrases
matter of course;
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Definition of resultant for English Language Learners
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: coming from or caused by something else
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