corollary
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Definitions ofcorollary
- Something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.
- Something which occurs a fortiori, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
Example: "Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront."
- A proposition which follows easily from the proof of another proposition.
Example: "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."
- Occurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential.
- Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.
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