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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
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.
There aren’t really corollaries in the United States, but we can try to construct one.
Its 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.
A civilian corollary was proven when ISIS waterboarded journalist James Foley before beheading him.
They had a corollary: “Each new level of sexual activity requires consent.”
And 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.
Two other centuries were employed in developing the first corollary of liberty of will, namely, liberty of conscience.
The corollary is that tired feeling which must have sorely tried the tyros or young recruits.
Exploit Second was four years later; in some sort a corollary to this; and a winding-up of the Swedish business.
The 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.
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