corollary
Mathematics. a proposition that is incidentally proved in proving another proposition.
an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion.
a natural consequence or result.
Origin of corollary
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How to use corollary in a sentence
Those familiar with the city’s geography will recognize that this spectrum has a real, physical corollary.
This type of framing has a direct corollary on how these students might be treated by teachers, administrators, and tutors, as well as how they are viewed by leaders, politicians and other people who hold power.
Words create worlds, so what kind of world do we want to live in? | Shukurat Adamoh-Faniyan | January 23, 2022 | Washington BladeThere aren’t really corollaries in the United States, but we can try to construct one.
A different John Kennedy but the same old red scare | Philip Bump | November 18, 2021 | Washington PostIts sad and much more frequent corollary, however, is Shabby Kit Life.
In the early 20th century, President Theodore Roosevelt added a corollary to what had become known as the Monroe Doctrine.
Defeating today’s top threats requires rethinking our idea of national security | Melvyn Leffler | January 26, 2021 | Washington Post
A civilian corollary was proven when ISIS waterboarded journalist James Foley before beheading him.
The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built | Michael Daly | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey had a corollary: “Each new level of sexual activity requires consent.”
How Antioch College Got Rape Right 20 Years Ago | Nicolaus Mills | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the corollary is that “those” people are where they are entirely because of their own doing.
Why not feature topics not solely defined by a corollary to “women”?
Increasingly, sex and its corollary, romantic love, were seen as a healthy part of a relationship.
What the Sex Lives of the Founding Fathers Reveal About Us | Eric Herschthal | February 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTwo other centuries were employed in developing the first corollary of liberty of will, namely, liberty of conscience.
Catherine de' Medici | Honore de BalzacThe corollary is that tired feeling which must have sorely tried the tyros or young recruits.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyExploit Second was four years later; in some sort a corollary to this; and a winding-up of the Swedish business.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) | Thomas CarlyleThe early part of the last century was prolific in chemical discoveries, and, as a corollary, in chemical theories of disease.
It is however from the corollary involved in this assumption that weak peoples are made to suffer.
British Dictionary definitions for corollary
/ (kəˈrɒlərɪ) /
a proposition that follows directly from the proof of another proposition
an obvious deduction
a natural consequence or result
consequent or resultant
Origin of corollary
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Scientific definitions for 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.
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