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corollary
[ kawr-uh-ler-ee, kor-; especially British, kuh-rol-uh-ree ]
noun
- Mathematics. a proposition that is incidentally proved in proving another proposition.
- an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion.
- a natural consequence or result.
corollary
/ kəˈrɒlərɪ /
noun
- a proposition that follows directly from the proof of another proposition
- an obvious deduction
- a natural consequence or result
adjective
- consequent or resultant
corollary
/ kôr′ə-lĕr′ē /
- 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.
Word History and Origins
Origin of corollary1
Word History and Origins
Origin of corollary1
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?
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.
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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