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corollary




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corollary
     1. n. Something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.
     2. n. Something which occurs a fortiori, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
           Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefont.
     3. n. (mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the 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.
     4. adj. (rare) Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.

Example Sentences

Its depressingly high unemployment brings the inevitable corollary of an equally high rate of alcohol and drug abuse and their associated crime. 



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