Definition of upshots Upshots
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Wiktionary 
- upshots (Noun)
Plural of upshot.
Part of speech
🔤- upshots, noun, plural of upshot.
WordNet
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| upshot - a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event" | ||
| consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue | ||
| phenomenon any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning | ||
| materialisation, materialization, offspring an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | ||
| aftereffect any result that follows its cause after an interval | ||
| aftermath, backwash, wake the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured" | ||
| bandwagon effect the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity; "in periods of high merger activity there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity"; "polls are accused of creating a bandwagon effect to benefit their candidate" | ||
| brisance the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion | ||
| 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 | ||
| by-product, byproduct a product made during the manufacture of something else | ||
| change the action of changing something; "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election" | ||
| coattails effect (politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party; "he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election" | ||
| 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 | ||
| dent an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | ||
| 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) | ||
| harvest the season for gathering crops | ||
| wallop, impact a severe blow | ||
| influence causing something without any direct or apparent effort | ||
| knock-on effect a secondary or incidental effect | ||
| offshoot, outgrowth, branch, offset a natural consequence of development | ||
| product an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" | ||
| 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; "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later" | ||
| response the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals | ||
| fallout, side effect the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- upshot (n.)
Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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upshot
Condition that which follows something on which it depends.
Part of speech
🔤- upshot, noun, singular of upshots.
