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resultant

noun

  1. polynomial expression of the coefficients of two polynomials, which is equal to zero if and only if the polynomials have a common root
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adjective

  1. come about, become, come about from a prior condition
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzʌltənt/

adj

Etymology: From Latin resultāns, present participle of resultō.

  1. Following as a result or consequence of something; resulting.

noun

Etymology: From Latin resultāns, present participle of resultō.

  1. 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.

  2. A vector that is the vector sum of multiple vectors.