Other forms: outcomes
The outcome is how something finally ends up. The outcome of the trial, a good outcome, whatever the outcome.
It is the standard word in medicine, education and policy for what actually happened as a result — patient outcomes, learning outcomes — and it is deliberately neutral about whether the result was good. Outcome differs from output: an output is what a process produces, and an outcome is the difference it makes. Note that outcomes-based is a whole approach in public services, built on that distinction.
1nounoutcomeHow something finally ends up.
“The outcome was the one everybody expected and nobody wanted.”
outcome is a result.
Also accepted in games: result
The word is out plus come, an English compound from the eighteenth century. Scottish writers used it earlier than English ones, and it was regarded as a Scotticism for a while before becoming universal.
From out + come.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA