COROLLARY


Meaning of COROLLARY in English

I. ˈkȯrəˌlerē, ˈkär-, -eri, Brit usually kəˈräləri noun

( -es )

Etymology: Middle English corolarie, from Late Latin corollarium, from Latin, gratuity, garland, from corolla small garland + -arium -ary — more at corolla

1.

a. : a proposition that follows upon one just demonstrated and that requires no additional proof

b. : a deduction, consequence, or additional inference more or less immediate from a proved proposition

2. obsolete

a. : something appended to a speech or writing : appendix , conclusion

b. : something beyond what is due : something added or superfluous

3.

a. : something that naturally follows : a practical consequence : result

the war has … paved the way for an economic and, as a corollary , a semipolitical internationalism — Edward Sapir

love was a stormy passion, and jealousy its normal corollary — Ida Treat

b. : something that incidentally or naturally attends or accompanies : accompaniment

only after the physical impossibility of the revolutionary goals had been demonstrated did its political corollary find acceptance — H.A.Kissinger

a corollary to the problem of the number of vessels to be built was that of the types of vessels to be constructed — Daniel Marx

II. adjective

: constituting a corollary:

a. : derived from a proposition : consequential

b. : that follows from or derives naturally from a circumstance or phenomenon : resulting

a sound economy and the corollary prosperity

c. : occurring together with or accompanying another phenomenon : associated, supplementary

five years after the Emancipation Proclamation the Fourteenth Amendment was established as a corollary measure

expansion of the knowledge of atomic energy leading to corollary experimentation … in power generation — Americana Annual

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