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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("upshot" 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 "upshot"):
spillover ((economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure)
fallout; side effect (any adverse and unwanted secondary effect)
response (a result)
repercussion; reverberation (a remote or indirect consequence of some action)
position effect ((genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome)
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)
product (a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances)
branch; offset; offshoot; outgrowth (a natural consequence of development)
knock-on effect (a secondary or incidental effect)
influence (the effect of one thing (or person) on another)
impact; wallop (a forceful consequence; a strong effect)
harvest (the consequence of an effort or activity)
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)
