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corollary

noun

  1. statement which can be readily deduced from a previous, more notable statement, but whose importance tends to be secondary in nature
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kɒˈɹɒləɹi/ / /ˈkɒɹələɹi/ / /ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/

adj

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”).

  1. Occurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential.

    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.

  2. Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.

noun

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”).

  1. A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.
  2. 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.

  3. 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.