corollary

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

/ ˈkɔr əˌlɛr i, ˈkɒr-; especially British, kəˈrɒl ə ri /

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noun, plural cor·ol·lar·ies.

Mathematics. a proposition that is incidentally proved in proving another proposition.

an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion.

a natural consequence or result.

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Origin of corollary

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

Words nearby corollary

Coro, corody, coroll., corolla, corollaceous, corollary, corollate, coromandel, Coromandel Coast, Coromandel work, Coromuel

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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.
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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.
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There aren’t really corollaries in the United States, but we can try to construct one.
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Its sad and much more frequent corollary, however, is Shabby Kit Life.
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In the early 20th century, President Theodore Roosevelt added a corollary to what had become known as the Monroe Doctrine.
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A civilian corollary was proven when ISIS waterboarded journalist James Foley before beheading him.
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They had a corollary: “Each new level of sexual activity requires consent.”
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And the corollary is that “those” people are where they are entirely because of their own doing.
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Why not feature topics not solely defined by a corollary to “women”?
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Increasingly, sex and its corollary, romantic love, were seen as a healthy part of a relationship.
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Two other centuries were employed in developing the first corollary of liberty of will, namely, liberty of conscience.
Catherine de' Medici|Honore de Balzac
The corollary is that tired feeling which must have sorely tried the tyros or young recruits.
Archaic England|Harold Bayley
Exploit 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 Carlyle
The early part of the last century was prolific in chemical discoveries, and, as a corollary, in chemical theories of disease.
The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2|Various
It is however from the corollary involved in this assumption that weak peoples are made to suffer.
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863|Various

British Dictionary definitions for corollary

corollary

/ (kəˈrɒlərɪ) /

noun plural -laries

a proposition that follows directly from the proof of another proposition

an obvious deduction

a natural consequence or result

adjective

consequent or resultant

Word Origin for corollary

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

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Scientific definitions for corollary

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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