Result
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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 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 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 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 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 Internet search, the results are the list of pages supplied in response to a specific querycite-ref-2[2]
See also
Wikiquote has quotations related to
Results
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• Result (schooner) (name of a ship)
• IMRAD (section "Results" in scientific writing)
References
cite-note-0-11. ↑ "result". Oxford Dictionary of English (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. 2015. ISBN 9780199571123.
cite-note-22. ↑ citerefdoyle2016Doyle, Charles (2016). "search engine result pages (SERPs)". A Dictionary of Marketing (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198736424.