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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: something that results; "he listened for the results on the radio" [syn: result, resultant, final result, outcome, termination]
2: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event" [syn: consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1788 something that follows as a result or consequence <a surprising outcome> <patient outcomes of bypass surgery>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a result; a visible effect.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Outcome Out"come, n. That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot. ``The logical outcome.'' --H. Spenser. All true literature, all genuine poetry, is the direct outcome, the condensed essence, of actual life and thougth. --J. C. Shairp.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(outcomes) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. The outcome of an activity, process, or situation is the situation that exists at the end of it. Mr. Singh said he was pleased with the outcome... It's too early to know the outcome of her illness. N-COUNT: usu sing, oft the N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Issue, result, consequence.

Moby Thesaurus

accomplishment, aftermath, answer, artifact, ascertainment, avenue, blowhole, brainchild, by-product, channel, child, chute, clearing up, coinage, composition, concoction, consequence, consequent, corollary, cracking, creation, creature, crowning achievement, debouch, decipherment, decoding, denouement, departure, derivation, derivative, determination, development, disentanglement, distillate, distillation, door, effect, egress, egression, emunctory, end, end product, end result, escape, essence, estuary, event, eventuality, eventuation, exhaust, exit, exodus, explanation, extract, extraction, finding, finding-out, floodgate, flume, follow-up, forthcoming, fruit, going out, handiwork, harvest, interpretation, invention, issue, legacy, logical outcome, loophole, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork, mintage, new mintage, offshoot, offspring, opening, opera, opus, opuscule, origination, out, outcoming, outfall, outgate, outgo, outgoing, outgrowth, outlet, pore, port, precipitate, product, production, reason, resolution, resolving, result, resultant, riddling, sally port, sequel, sequela, sequelae, sequence, sequent, sluice, solution, solving, sorting out, spiracle, spout, tap, unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, wake, way out, weir, work, working, working-out