Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or
the result of the string.
Bacon.
2. That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or
condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or
operation; consequence or effect; as, the result of a course of action;
the result of a mathematical operation.
If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a
quick result.
Milton.
3. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly;
a resolve; a decree.
Then of their session ended they bid cry With trumpet's regal sound
the great result.
Milton.
Syn. -- Effect; consequence; conclusion; inference; issue; event. See
Effect.
Re*sult"ance (?), n. The act of resulting; that which results; a
result. Donne.
Re*sult"ant (?), a. [L. resultans, p. pr. : cf. F. résultant.]
Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a
result or consequence.
Resultant force or motion (Mech.), a force which is the result of two
or more forces acting conjointly, or a motion which is the result of
two or more motions combined. See Composition of forces, under
Composition.
Re*sult"ant, n. That which results. Specifically: (a) (Mech.) A
reultant force or motion. (b) (Math.) An eliminant.
The resultant of homogeneous general functions of n variables is
that function of their coefficients which, equaled to zero,
expresses in the simplest terms the condition of the possibility of
their existence.
Sylvester.
Re*sult"ate (?), n. [L. resultatus, p. p. ] A result. [Obs.] "The
resultate of their counsil." BAcon.
Re*sult"ful (?), a. HAving results or effects.
Re*sult"ive (?), a. Resultant. [Obs.] Fuller.
Re*sult"less, a. Being without result; as, resultless investigations.
Re*sum"a*ble (?), a. Capable of, or admitting of, being resumed. Sir M.
HAle.
||Re`su"mé" (?), n. [F. See Resume.] A summing up; a condensed
||statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.
The exellent little résumé thereof in Dr. Landsborough's book.