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corollary

[ kawr-uh-ler-ee, kor-; especially British, kuh-rol-uh-ree ]

noun

, plural cor·ol·lar·ies.
  1. Mathematics. a proposition that is incidentally proved in proving another proposition.
  2. an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion.
  3. a natural consequence or result.


corollary

/ kəˈrɒlərɪ /

noun

  1. a proposition that follows directly from the proof of another proposition
  2. an obvious deduction
  3. a natural consequence or result
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. consequent or resultant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

corollary

/ kôrə-lĕr′ē /

  1. A statement that follows with little or no proof required from an already proven statement. For example, it is a theorem in geometry that the angles opposite two congruent sides of a triangle are also congruent. A corollary to that statement is that an equilateral triangle is also equiangular.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of corollary1

1325–75; Middle English < Late Latin corollārium corollary, in Latin: money paid for a garland, a gift, gratuity. See corolla, -ary
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Word History and Origins

Origin of corollary1

C14: from Latin corollārium money paid for a garland, from Latin corolla garland, from corōna crown
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Example Sentences

And there’s a slightly less common corollary to that: I mean, really, who are these people who say that they’re undecided?

From Salon

If we insist on regarding the natural world in such feminine terms, then authority over women is an essential — and equally destructive — corollary to authority over nature.

A corollary to the people’s power to govern is that the government must honor our fundamental rights.

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But perhaps there should be a corollary: If you start your action with a bang, a gun had better follow.

Their father, Don, a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan, had created Stormfront, the legacy white supremacist website; Derek ran Stormfront’s corollary site for children, co-hosted a white nationalist radio show with their father, spoke at white nationalist conferences, and successfully won a Republican committee seat in Palm Beach County, Florida.

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