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Word entry · 9 letters

corollary

Best crossword clue

"Natural consequence"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /kɒˈɹɒləɹi/Part of speech nounSorted aclloorryStarts with CEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.
  • 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.

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