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(logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition
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corollary
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Word definitions for corollary in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A rapid increase in population would be a natural corollary of any such changes in the birth control program. ▪ Huge increases in unemployment were the corollary of the government's economic policy. ▪ Surprisingly, environmental ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corollary \Cor"ol*la*ry\ (k?r"?l-l?-r?; 277), n.; pl. Corollaries (-r?z). [L. corollarium gift, corollary, fr. corolla. See Corolla .] That which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous. 2 Something which occurs ''a fortiori'', as a result of another effort without significant additional effort. 3 (context mathematics logic English) A proposition which follows ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a practical consequence that follows naturally; "blind jealousy is a frequent corollary of passionate love" (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Late Latin corollarium "a deduction, consequence," from Latin corollarium , originally "money paid for a garland," hence "gift, gratuity, something extra;" and in logic, "a proposition proved from another that has been proved." From corolla ...
Usage examples of corollary.
The corollary to all this was that I should immediately quit gynecology, go back and do another residency and start all over again.
The emergence of our dreaming attention is a direct corollary of revamping our lives.
He prepared me for the indispensable corollary of all the verbalizations, and the consolidation of all the teachings, the states of non-ordinary reality.
These facts of allotropism have some corollaries connected with them rather startling to us of the nineteenth century.
And because the whole fertilizer mentality is about profit, it also entails a corollary of subsequent slave labor, migrants, homeless sharecroppers such as you witnessed in Bangladesh, and can find circulating the company farms of America.
But, following a corollary in my expanded Ten Commandments, I said nothing and did not mention my frets about accidents.
The corollaries from the principle of utility, like the precepts of every practical art, admit of indefinite improvement, and, in a progressive state of the human mind, their improvement is perpetually going on.
In one point of view, they may be considered as corollaries from the principles already laid down.
They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man’s mind and the damnation of this earth.
The unspoken corollary was that, since he shared a flat with Garni and had not appeared at the same time as the dwarf, he’d spent the night elsewhere.
But one of the variations of a particular species was in the shape of the mouth and nasal cavities, facilitating the production of a range of vocal sounds beyond the capacity of any other creature, and corollary development of the brain to process speech sounds.
Unlike most of his contemporaries, he was used to night work and its corollary, sleeping by day.
Leaving a trail of booming decibels, he performed a power slide behind One Police Plaza, then crossed Park Row without waiting for a break in the traffic, and felt as if he were saved only by some abstruse corollary of particle physics: He wasn't in the same state, particle or wave, long enough for anyone to hit him.
A corollary of self-referential theory may, indeed, make that an impossibility for one confined to our world.