corollary
noun
- statement which can be readily deduced from a previous, more notable statement, but whose importance tends to be secondary in nature
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”).
- 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.”
- 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”).
- 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.”
- 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.”