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Corollary
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- 1 Occurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential. not-comparable
"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 and corollary review processes in order to be granted ethics clearance."
- 2 Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved. not-comparable, rare
- 1 A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.
- 2 (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition wordnet
- 3 An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
"Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront."
- 4 a practical consequence that follows naturally wordnet
- 5 A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.
"We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary, we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers."
Etymology
From Middle English, from Late Latin corōllārium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”), from corōlla (“small garland”), diminutive of corōna (“crown”).
From Middle English, from Late Latin corōllārium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”), from corōlla (“small garland”), diminutive of corōna (“crown”).
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