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corollaries

corollaries is the plural of corollary.

Meaning of corollary

Noun

corollary (plural corollaries)

  1. A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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Questions about corollaries

What is corollaries the plural of?
Corollaries is the plural of corollary.

Words near corollaries in the dictionary

  1. corolla
  2. corollaceous
  3. corollae
  4. corollarial
  5. corollarially
  6. corollaries
  7. corollarily
  8. corollary
  9. corollary relief
  10. corollas
  11. corollate

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