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Another word for corollary

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Noun

  1. Something brought about by a cause

      1. The central idea or point; gist.
      2. The conclusion; result; outcome
      1. Something that follows, esp. as a result; consequence
      2. A result; a consequence.
      1. The following of one thing after another in chronological, causal, or logical order; succession or continuity
      2. A series of related shots that constitute a complete unit of action in a movie.
      3. A resulting event; consequence; sequel
      1. Plural form of sequela
      2. A literary work, film, etc. complete in itself but continuing a story begun in an earlier work, film, etc.
      3. A result or consequence
      1. (Physics) A force, velocity, etc. with an effect equal to that of two or more such forces, etc. acting together
      2. (Mathematics) A single vector that is the equivalent of a set of vectors.
      3. Something that results; result
      1. The number, quantity, etc. obtained by mathematical calculation; answer to a problem
      2. The consequence or consequences desired
      3. Something that follows naturally from a particular action, operation, or course; a consequence or outcome.
      1. A development or consequence growing out of and sometimes complicating a problem, plan, or statement:
      2. A derived effect, consequence, or result
      3. The result of ramifying
      1. A solid material precipitated from a solution.
      2. A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
      1. An end result; a consequence.
      2. The way something turns out; result; consequence
      1. A culminating point leading to a decision:
      2. A final result or conclusion, as a solution to a problem.
      3. A result; consequence; upshot
      1. The outcome or consequence of any effort or series of events
      2. A season's yield of grain, fruit, etc. when gathered in or ready to be gathered in; crop
      3. The result or consequence of an action:
      1. An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.
      2. The result, product, or consequence of any action
      3. Result; outcome:
      1. (Sports) A contest in a sports competition, such as a meet:
      2. (Physics) A phenomenon or occurrence located at a single point in space-time, regarded as the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory.
      3. (Archaic) A result; outcome
      1. A final product, especially one resulting from a series of stages or processes.
      2. The final result of any series of changes, processes, or chemical reactions
      1. Something that produces a specific impression or supports a general design or intention:
      2. Anything brought about by a cause or agent; result
      3. The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result:
      1. A result of an action, process, etc.; outcome or effect, often, specif., an adverse one
      2. A logical result or conclusion; inference
      3. The relation of effect to cause
      1. A second growth or crop in the same season, as of grass after mowing.
      2. A period of time following a disastrous event:
      3. A consequence, especially of a disaster or misfortune:
    See also:

    cause

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Another word for corollary

Noun

  1. An inference

      1. The number, quantity, etc. obtained by mathematical calculation; answer to a problem
      2. The consequence or consequences desired
      3. Something that follows naturally from a particular action, operation, or course; a consequence or outcome.
      1. (Linguistics) The process by which words or morphemes are re-formed or created on the model of existing grammatical patterns in a language, often leading to greater regularity in paradigms, as evidenced by helped replacing holp and holpen as the past tense and past participle of help on the model of verbs such as yelp, yelped, yelped.
      2. A comparison based on such similarity:
      3. A similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar:
      1. The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
      2. A conclusion reached by this process.
      3. (Logic) The act or process of deducing; reasoning from the general to the specific, or from premises to a logically valid conclusion; also, a conclusion reached by such reasoning
    See also:

    judgment

  2. A natural consequence

    See also:

    result

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Sentence Examples

  • It is the necessary corollary to the teaching of Amos, that God is the righteous lord of all the world.

  • On the whole serfdom appears as a characteristic corollary of feudalism.

  • Europe had sinned in the face of God; otherwise Jerusalem would never have fallen; and the idea of a spiritual reform from within, as the necessary corollary and accompaniment of the expedition of Christianity without, breathes in some of the papal letters, just as, during the conciliar movement, the causa reformationis was blended with the causa unionis.

  • Pasteur first formulated the idea that bacteria are responsible for the diseases of fermented liquids; the corollary of this was a demand for pure yeast.

  • Whether he subsequently regarded the victory of the monarchy and its corollary, the admittance of the middle classes to all offices and dignities, as a satisfactory equivalent for his original demands; or whether he was so overcome by royal favour as to sacrifice cheerfully the political liberties of his country, can only be a matter for conjecture.

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