Resulting

Resulting is the present participle form of the verb result and is used in English as both a participle and an adjective. It denotes something that follows as a consequence or is produced by a preceding action or event. In everyday language, resulting is common in constructions such as resulting effects, resulting consequences, or resulting from, to indicate cause and effect. For example, “The storm damaged several buildings, resulting in power outages” uses resulting in a phrase that highlights the outcome.

In grammar and style, resulting often appears in phrases with from or in, such as resulting from, resulting in, or resulting effects. The construction resulting in typically introduces a consequence, while resulting from describes the cause. The term can function as a modifier (resulting changes) or as part of a participial clause (the changes, resulting from the policy shift, were sustained).

In law, the phrase resulting trust refers to a trust that arises by operation of law rather than by explicit creation, typically when property is transferred with no expressed intent to create a trust. The law imposes a resulting trust to prevent unjust enrichment and to reflect the presumed intent of the parties under certain circumstances.

Related terms include result and resultant. Resulting is distinct from resultant, which in fields such as physics or engineering often denotes the cumulative outcome or the vector sum, though both share the idea of consequence.