/ rɪˈzʌltənt; NAmE / adjective
[ only before noun ] ( formal ) caused by the thing that has just been mentioned :
the growing economic crisis and resultant unemployment
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WORD ORIGIN
mid 17th cent. (in the adjectival sense): from Latin resultant- springing back, from the verb resultare to result, earlier in the sense spring back , from re- (expressing intensive force) + saltare (frequentative of salire to jump).