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corollaries

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for corollaries.

Editorial note

Things that work, unsurprisingly, have side-effects; frequently the side-effects are in fact simply corollaries or restatements of their effect!

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Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of corollaries gathered in one view.

noun

An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.

noun

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

noun

(mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for corollaries.

noun

An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.

noun

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

noun

(mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.

Example sentences

1

Things that work, unsurprisingly, have side-effects; frequently the side-effects are in fact simply corollaries or restatements of their effect!

2

They have one main theorem which is supported by multiple propositions and lemmas and corollaries.

3

There are some interesting corollaries that make this interesting from an InfoSec perspective.

4

If it's math, I write notes, solve related problems and try to come up with related corollaries.

5

Not making a judgment either way, but there are corollaries to this.

6

Also depressing are some of the corollaries that have cropped up.

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And, like you say, there are tons of interesting corollaries.

8

They have exception, implications, corollaries, and conflict with each other.

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Sadly most people I know choose safety first and close their eyes to the corollaries, which leads us to where we are now.

10

There are so many corollaries between the two environments I would expect something between the studios and Kickstarter to have emerged by now.

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It also carries some other questionable baggage / corollaries: - Secrets do not exist, hence trade secrets and contrarian business models or scientific ideas are rare or nonexistent.

12

Haskell has lots of good, modern frameworks and libraries for doing web-related things, which aren't difficult to use or any more corner-case-y than their corollaries in other languages.

Quote examples

1

The "reversed stupidity is not intelligence" principle and its corollaries are all true, but only trivially so.

2

I'm sure there's corollaries for "dynamic databases" such as MongoDB.

3

This is one of the more fun corollaries to Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced engineering is indistinguishable from wizardry".

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"Corollaries of this principle: " * To argue against an idea honestly, you should argue against the best arguments of the strongest advocates.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use corollaries in a sentence?

Things that work, unsurprisingly, have side-effects; frequently the side-effects are in fact simply corollaries or restatements of their effect!

What does corollaries mean?

An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.

What part of speech is corollaries?

corollaries is commonly used as noun.