means The result or consequence of an action, process, or event — how things actually turn out.

from A plain English compound, 'out' + 'come,' built the same way 'income' is. It started literally as 'that which comes out' — a sprouting, an emergence — before settling into its modern sense of a result. Related to the old verb 'to come out,' it carries the quiet image of something issuing forth, the way a plant comes up from seed or a verdict comes out of deliberation.