corollary

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɒˈɹɒləɹi/, /ˈkɒɹələɹi/
• (America) enPR: kôr'əlĕrē, IPA: /ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/

Noun

corollary (plural corollaries)

1. Something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.
2. Something which occurs a fortiori, 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. (mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the 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.

Translations

• French: corollaire, corolaire
• German: Korollar, Folgesatz
• Italian: corollario
• Portuguese: corolário
• Russian: сле́дствие
• Spanish: corolario

Adjective

corollary (not comparable)

1. (rare) Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.

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