result

the result of a course of action;  the result of a mathematical operation

The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.

Then of their session ended they bid cry / With trumpet's regal sound the great result.

Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string.

It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”