corollary
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English, from Late Latin corōllārium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”), from corōlla (“small garland”), diminutive of corōna (“crown”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /kɒˈɹɒləɹi/, /ˈkɒɹələɹi/
- (US) enPR: kôr'əlĕrē, IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kɔˈɹoʊˌlɛɹi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editcorollary (plural corollaries)
- A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.
- 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.
- (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.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editproposition which follows easily
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Adjective
editcorollary (not comparable)
- Occurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 11:
- 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.
- (rare) Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.
Further reading
edit- “corollary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “corollary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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