corollary
/ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/ noun, adjective
Forms corollaries
- noun A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.
- noun 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.”
- noun (mathematics, logic) 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.”
- adjective Occurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential.
- adjective (rare) Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.
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”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun That which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous. [Obs.]
- noun Something which follows from the demonstration of a proposition; an additional inference or deduction from a demonstrated proposition; a consequence.
Etymology [L. corollarium gift, corollary, fr. corolla. See Corolla.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “corollary”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details