corollary

Noun

corollary noun

1. Something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.
2. 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 storefront.”
3. 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.”

Verb

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Adjective

corollary adjective

1. Occurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential.
2. Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.