Meanings
- not comparableFollowing as a result or consequence of something; resulting.
plural resultants
- Anything that results from something else; an outcome.
2022, Charles Howard Hinton, The Fourth Dimension And our logic is simply spatiality in the general sense — that resultant of a selection of the permanent from the unpermanent, the ordered from the unordered, by the means of the group and its underlying duality.
- mathematicsA vector that is the vector sum of multiple vectors.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveoccurring with or following as a consequence
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinresultāns
- Englishresultant
From Latin resultāns, present participle of resultō.
More words from Latin
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Arabic مُحَصَّل
- مُحَصَّل (muḥaṣṣal)following as a result or consequence of something
Bulgarian произлизащ, произтичащ
- произлизащ (proizlizašt)following as a result or consequence of something
- произтичащ (proiztičašt)following as a result or consequence of something
Czech výsledný
- výslednýfollowing as a result or consequence of something
Indonesian resultan
- resultanfollowing as a result or consequence of something
Polish wynikający, wynikły
- wynikającyfollowing as a result or consequence of something
- wynikłyfollowing as a result or consequence of something
- wypadkowyfollowing as a result or consequence of something
Romanian rezultant
- rezultantfollowing as a result or consequence of something
Turkish bileşke
- bileşkefollowing as a result or consequence of something
Cite this entry
resultant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resultant
“resultant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resultant. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “resultant,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resultant.
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