corollary
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromMiddle English,fromLate Latincorōllārium(“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”),fromcorōlla(“small garland”),diminutive ofcorōna(“crown”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key):/kɒˈɹɒləɹi/,/ˈkɒɹələɹi/
- (US)enPR:kôr'əlĕrē,IPA(key):/ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/
- (General Australian)IPA(key):/kɔˈɹoʊˌlɛɹi/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]corollary(pluralcorollaries)
- A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition orsuperfluity.
- Ana fortiorioccurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
- Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nicecorollaryof redoing the whole storefront.
- (mathematics,logic)Apropositionwhichfollowseasily from the statement or proof of another proposition.
- We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as acorollary,we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]proposition which follows easily
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Adjective
[edit]corollary(notcomparable)
- Occurring as a naturalconsequenceor result;attendant;consequential.
- 2019,Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, inJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, ,page11:
- However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements andcorollaryreview processes in order to be granted ethics clearance.
- (rare)Forming apropositionthat follows from one already proved.
Further reading
[edit]- “corollary”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- “corollary”,inThe Century Dictionary[…],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,→OCLC.
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