corollary - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
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”).
- IPA(key): /kɒˈɹɒləɹi/, /ˈkɒɹələɹi/
- (US) enPR: kôr'əlĕrē, IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kɔˈɹoʊˌlɛɹi/
corollary (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.
proposition which follows easily
- Bulgarian: извод (bg) m (izvod), следствие (bg) n (sledstvie)
- Catalan: corol·lari (ca) m
- Chinese: 推論/推论 (tuīlùn)
- Czech: důsledek (cs) m
- Danish: korollar n
- Dutch: gevolg (nl) n, gevolgtrekking (nl) f, uitvloeisel (nl) n
- Finnish: seuraus (fi), korollaari (fi), luonnollinen seuraus
- French: corollaire (fr) m, corolaire (fr) m
- German: Korollar (de) n, Folgesatz m
- Greek: πόρισμα (el) n (pórisma)
Ancient: πόρῐσμᾰ n (pórisma), προσπόρῐσμᾰ n (prospórisma) - Hebrew: מסקנה (he) f (maskaná)
- Hungarian: szükségszerű következmény, származékos tétel, velejáró (hu), következmény (hu), folyomány (hu), korollárium (hu)
- Icelandic: fylgisetning f
- Irish: atoradh m
- Italian: corollario (it) m
- Japanese: 系 (ja) (kei, けい)
- Macedonian: королар m (korolar)
- Persian: فرع (fa)
- Polish: następstwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: corolário (pt) m
- Romanian: corolar (ro) n
- Russian: сле́дствие (ru) n (slédstvije)
- Spanish: corolario (es) m
- Swedish: följdsats (sv) c, korollarium (sv) n
- Tagalog: hugpungin
- Welsh: canlyniad (cy) m, canlyniadau (cy) m pl
corollary (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, →DOI, 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.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
- (rare) Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.
- “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.