resultant

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As far as parade-ground drill was concerned they were admirable; as the mechanical and automatic resultants of the efforts of the drill-sergeant they were possibly unequalled.

From Impressions of a War Correspondent by Lynch, George

What strange inversion of scientific procedure does Mr. Allen practise when he teaches us to neglect elements and attend only to aggregate resultants?

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

All social phenomena are the necessary resultants of the historical conditions and of the environment.

From Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) by La Monte, Robert Rives

By descending from source to sea we follow the development of civilisation from its simple origins to its complex resultants; nor can any element of this be omitted.

From Civics: as Applied Sociology by Geddes, Patrick

He says they are in bending between the centers of compressive resultants.

From Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper No. 1169, Volume LXX, Dec. 1910 by Godfrey, Edward