OUTCOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outcome mean? 

• OUTCOME (noun)
  The noun OUTCOME has 2 senses:

1. something that results

2. a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

  Familiarity information: OUTCOME used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTCOME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that results

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

final result; outcome; result; resultant; termination

Context example:

he listened for the results on the radio

Hypernyms ("outcome" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; finish (event whose occurrence ends something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outcome"):

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)

denouement (the outcome of a complex sequence of events)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot

Context example:

he acted very wise after the event

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)

spillover ((economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure)

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)

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 

One of the possible results of an adverse event outcome that indicates that the event has not improved or recuperated.

(Not Recovered or Not Resolved, NCI Thesaurus)

The project is designed to increase the knowledge of the relationship between cancer care practices in the general population and patient outcomes including survival and quality of life.

(Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with no measurement outcome, value, or data obtained from the device.

(No Medical Device Output, Food and Drug Administration)

The relationship between two or more observation outcomes.

(Observation Outcome Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)

It does not have the relatively favorable outcome that characterizes medullary breast carcinoma.

(Atypical Medullary Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

No attempt is made to affect the outcome (for example, no treatment is given).

(Observational study, NCI Dictionary)

The study found that feeling lonely was a stronger predictor of poor outcomes than living alone, in both men and women.

(Loneliness Is Bad for Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An additional description of the relationship between two or more observation outcomes.

(Observation Result Relationship Comment, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients with acute myeloid leukemia usually do not respond to treatment and have an unfavorable clinical outcome.

(Alkylating Agent-Related Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

The bank has an associated database that contains prognostic, staging, outcome and treatment data on patients from whom tissues were obtained.

(AIDS and Cancer Specimen Bank, NCI Thesaurus)