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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An end result; a consequence. synonym: effect.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A going forth; a marauding expedition; incursion; inroad. Compare outroad.
  • noun That which comes out of or results from something else; issue; result.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Information, event, object or state of being produced as a result or consequence of a plan, process, accident, effort or other similar action or occurrence.
  • noun A positive result or consequence.
  • noun probability theory The result of a random trial. An element of a sample space.
  • noun education The results or evidence of students' learning experience. Often used in place of desired outcomes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
  • noun something that results

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out +‎ come

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