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A result (also called upshot) is the outcome or consequence of a sequence of actions or events. Possible results include gain, injury, value, and victory. Some types of results include the outcome of an action, the final value of a calculation, and the outcome of a vote.
Description
A result is the final consequence of a sequence of actions or events expressed qualitatively or quantitatively. Possible results include advantage, disadvantage, gain, injury, loss, value, and victory.
There may be a range of possible outcomes associated with an event depending on the point of view, historical distance or relevance. Reaching no result can mean that actions are inefficient, ineffective, meaningless or flawed.
Types
Some types of result are as follows:
- in general, the outcome of any kind of research, action or phenomenon
- in games (e.g. cricket, lotteries) or wars, the result includes the identity of the victorious party and possibly the effects on the environment
- in mathematics, the final value of a calculation (e.g. arithmetic operation), function or statistical expression, or the final statement of a theorem that has been proven
- in statistics, any information analyzed, extracted or interpolated from polls, tests or logs
- in computer sciences, the return value of a function, state of a system or list of records matching a query (e.g. web search). The result type is the data type of the data returned by a function.
- in science, the outcome and data concluded from an experiment (e.g. see null hypothesis)
- in forensics and justice, the proof of guilt or innocence of a suspect after evaluating evidence in a criminal investigation
- in economics and accounting, the profit or loss at the end of a fiscal period.
- in democracy, the election of a representative or the outcome of a vote on a subject
- In management and related fields, a result is a piece of information that has certain properties in absolute terms or in relation to previous results or settings
- In chemistry, the result is the final item of a mix
- In Internet search, the results are the list of pages supplied in response to a specific query
See also
- Result (disambiguation)
- Result (cricket)
- Result (schooner) (name of a ship)
- Determinism
- IMRAD (section "Results" in scientific writing)
References
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Result news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2024 Learn how and when to remove this message A result also called upshot is the outcome or consequence of a sequence of actions or events Possible results include gain injury value and victory Some types of results include the outcome of an action the final value of a calculation and the outcome of a vote DescriptionA result is the final consequence of a sequence of actions or events expressed qualitatively or quantitatively Possible results include advantage disadvantage gain injury loss value and victory There may be a range of possible outcomes associated with an event depending on the point of view historical distance or relevance Reaching no result can mean that actions are inefficient ineffective meaningless or flawed TypesSome types of result are as follows in general the outcome of any kind of research action or phenomenon in games e g cricket lotteries or wars the result includes the identity of the victorious party and possibly the effects on the environment in mathematics the final value of a calculation e g arithmetic operation function or statistical expression or the final statement of a theorem that has been proven in statistics any information analyzed extracted or interpolated from polls tests or logs in computer sciences the return value of a function state of a system or list of records matching a query e g web search The result type is the data type of the data returned by a function in science the outcome and data concluded from an experiment e g see null hypothesis in forensics and justice the proof of guilt or innocence of a suspect after evaluating evidence in a criminal investigation in economics and accounting the profit or loss at the end of a fiscal period in democracy the election of a representative or the outcome of a vote on a subject In management and related fields a result is a piece of information that has certain properties in absolute terms or in relation to previous results or settings In chemistry the result is the final item of a mix In Internet search the results are the list of pages supplied in response to a specific querySee alsoWikiquote has quotations related to Results Result disambiguation Result cricket Result schooner name of a ship Determinism IMRAD section Results in scientific writing References result Oxford Dictionary of English 3rd ed Oxford University Press 2015 ISBN 9780199571123 Doyle Charles 2016 search engine result pages SERPs A Dictionary of Marketing 4th ed Oxford University Press ISBN 9780198736424 This set index article includes a list of related items that share the same name or similar names If an internal link incorrectly led you here you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article
