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OUTCOME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Something that results
Example:
he listened for the results on the radio
Synonyms:
final result; outcome; result; resultant; termination
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("outcome" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; finish (event whose occurrence ends something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outcome"):
denouement (the outcome of a complex sequence of events)
deal (the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement))
decision (the outcome of a game or contest)
decision ((boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred)
aftermath; consequence (the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual)
separation (the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal))
sequel; subsequence (something that follows something else)
worst (the least favorable outcome)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
Example:
he acted very wise after the event
Synonyms:
consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("outcome" is a kind of...):
phenomenon (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outcome"):
harvest (the consequence of an effort or activity)
impact; wallop (a forceful consequence; a strong effect)
influence (the effect of one thing (or person) on another)
knock-on effect (a secondary or incidental effect)
branch; offset; offshoot; outgrowth (a natural consequence of development)
product (a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances)
placebo effect (any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs)
position effect ((genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome)
repercussion; reverberation (a remote or indirect consequence of some action)
response (a result)
fallout; side effect (any adverse and unwanted secondary effect)
spillover ((economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure)
domino effect (the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall))
dent (an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening))
Coriolis effect ((physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere)
coattails effect ((politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party)
change (the result of alteration or modification)
by-product; byproduct (a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence)
butterfly effect (the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago)
brisance (the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion)
bandwagon effect (the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity)
aftermath; backwash; wake (the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event))
aftereffect (any result that follows its cause after an interval)
materialisation; materialization; offspring (something that comes into existence as a result)
Context examples:
Despite the key role blood oxygen levels play in health outcomes, the influence of genetics on their variability remains understudied.
(Researchers identify genetic variations linked to oxygen drops during sleep, National Institutes of Health)
A research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcomes.
(Clinical trial, NCI Thesaurus)
The findings suggest that traumatic microbleeds are a form of injury to brain blood vessels and may predict worse outcomes.
(Microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury, National Institutes of Health)
It affects both children and adults and it usually has an unfavorable clinical outcome.
(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with t(6;9)(p23;q34); DEK-NUP214, NCI Thesaurus)
Terminology associated with the disease outcome codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
(CDISC SDTM Disease Outcome Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
The use of statistical analysis, computer analysis, or model organisms to predict outcomes of research.
(Modeling, NCI Thesaurus)
Terminology used in Individual Case Safety Reports for description of adverse event outcomes, section B2 of FDA MedWatch Form.
(Adverse Event Outcome ICSR Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
While there were multiple, promising outcomes from these screens, the team focused on the combination of histone deacetylase inhibitors (like panobinostat) with drugs called proteasome inhibitors (such as marizomib).
(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)
The outcome is a smaller version, better for child use.
(New HIV medicine under development for children in Brazil, Agência Brasil/EBC)
How you will feel at the eclipses depends on how things have been going up until now, for those events will influence the outcome.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
