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Re*sult" (?), n. 1. A flying back; resilience. [Obs.]

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.

C. Kingsley.

Re*sume" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resumed (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Resuming.] [L. resumere, resumptum; pref. re- re- + sumere to take: cf. F. résumer. See Assume, Redeem.] 1. To take back.

The sun, like this, from which our sight we have, Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave.

Denham.

Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood.