intransitive verb

1. to happen or issue as a consequence or effect: often with from floods resulting from heavy rains
2. to end as a consequence (in something) heavy rains resulting in floods

Etymology: ME resulten < ML resultare < L, to spring back, rebound, freq. of resilire, to leap back: see resile

noun

1. 1. anything that comes about as a consequence or outcome of some action, process, etc.
   2. the consequence or consequences desired
2. the number, quantity, etc. obtained by mathematical calculation; answer to a problem