Re‐sult″ (?), n. 1. A flying back; resilience.
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.