noun
corollary
KOR-uh-lair-ee/ˈkɔːrəleri/
A result that follows naturally from something already established.
The third domino's fall is a corollary of the second toppling into it.
Etymology
Latin corollarium meant a gratuity or something extra, originally money paid for a garland. In logic, that “extra” became a result gained alongside the proof of another proposition.
In context
we need to increase the funding but at the same time the the corollary to that is that i think we also need to increase the the capacity to swallow that funding here
More examples
- Greater responsibility is a natural corollary of greater authority.
- The teacher asks us to prove a corollary of the theorem.
- The report discusses two corollaries of its central finding.
Forms
corollary · corollaries
Similar words
- consequence
- A broader term for any result, including unintended effects.
- implication
- A conclusion suggested by something, not necessarily following inevitably.
- deduction
- A conclusion reached through reasoning rather than a resulting event.