corollaries
corollaries is the plural of corollary.
Meaning of corollary
Noun
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.
- 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.
Questions about corollaries
- What is corollaries the plural of?
- Corollaries is the plural of corollary.
Words near corollaries in the dictionary
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