result
Definitions
General English
Accounting
- noun a profit or loss account for a company at the end of a trading period
- noun something which happens because of something else
Computing
Cricket
- noun any of the three possible outcomes of a cricket match. A match can end in a draw, a tie, or with one side winning.Citation ‘The final day dawned brightly, with every result possible and tension upgraded from danger level to crisis point’ (Hugh Chevallier, Wisden 2006)
Information & Library Science
- noun the outcome of an event or activity
Medical
- noun figures at the end of a calculation, at the end of a test
Sports
- noun the outcome of a game or match
Origin & History of “result”
Etymologically, to result is to ‘jump backwards’. The word comes ultimately from Latin resultāre ‘jump backwards’, hence ‘rebound’, a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back’ and saltāre ‘jump’ (source of English insult, sauté, etc). In medieval Latin it came to be used figuratively for ‘happen as a consequence’, the sense in which English borrowed it. It was not used as a noun until the 17th century.
