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correlary

correlary is the misspelling 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.

See all 5 meanings of corollary

Origin of correlary

From the influence of the etymologically unrelated but semantically close correlate.

Questions about correlary

What is correlary the misspelling of?
Correlary is the misspelling of corollary.

Words near correlary in the dictionary

  1. corregimiento
  2. corregimientos
  3. correi
  4. correi debendi
  5. correl
  6. correlary
  7. correlatability
  8. correlatable
  9. correlate
  10. correlated
  11. correlatedly

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