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Adjective
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
Noun
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
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 May 2024
Weilerstein has been rolling out the resultant six chapters — each hour-long block representing one of Bach’s cello suites — since last year.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
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Adjective
All that resultant information will also help fill in the sizable, decades’ old gaps created in the wake of a major fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis in 1973.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 May 2024
Weilerstein has been rolling out the resultant six chapters — each hour-long block representing one of Bach’s cello suites — since last year.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
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“Resultant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resultant. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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resultant
1 of 2 adjective
re·sul·tant
ri-ˈzəlt-ᵊnt 
: coming from or resulting from something else
resultantly
adverb
resultant
2 of 2 noun
: something that results : outcome
especially
: the single vector that is the sum of a given set of vectors
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