{
  "id": "results.outcome",
  "term": "results",
  "sense": "outcome",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "results",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "an outcome that is the difference that follows a change",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "the change creates a new pattern that differs from the previous one",
    "novel_properties": [
      "causal linkage",
      "observable consequence",
      "new state"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers, altering global credit markets.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Chernobyl disaster released 400 times more radioactive material than the Hiroshima bomb.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The human genome project produced a complete reference sequence by 2003, enabling personalized medicine.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "event.occurrence",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "difference.relation",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "ability.capacity",
    "addition.mathematical",
    "blue.color",
    "brown.color",
    "effective.useful",
    "effects.result",
    "experience.cognitive",
    "four.cardinal",
    "performance.quality",
    "poker.game",
    "production.manufacturing",
    "six.cardinal",
    "thirty.numeral",
    "try.effort"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "result",
    "resulted",
    "resulting",
    "results"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-results.outcome"
}