corollary
/ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
noun
A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.
adj
Occurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential.
adj
Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.
Example Sentences
- "Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront."
- "[…] he was indeed of the opinion that the spontaneous uprising of the working class would come to nothing unless the party was there to give it shape and direction. This was an obvious corollary of the party's role as the only possible vehicle of socialist consciousness."
- "Amidst the lingering consequences of what was probably a lab made pandemic, heightened political turmoil in a world of nuclear weapons, and, as mankind’s first synthetic mind comes closer by the day to waking up, the unknowable implications of general artificial intelligence, the truth is we are clearly at risk of cataclysm. But that is the corollary of life in an age of wonder, a precious gift impossible without the natural dangers inherent of tremendous progress. In other words: yes, we are at risk of the apocalypse, and that is good."
- "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."
- "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."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, corōllārium
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/