Corollary
noun
Something that naturally follows or results from another thing.
He pointed out that hunger is a corollary of poverty.
Often appears as...
- direct corollary
- necessary corollary
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Academic
noun
In math, a statement that follows immediately from another statement that has been proved.
In geometry, the Pythagorean theorem has several corollaries.
Often appears as...
- mathematical corollary
- geometric corollary
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Academic
noun
Something that naturally follows or results from another thing.
He pointed out that hunger is a corollary of poverty.
Often appears as...
- direct corollary
- necessary corollary
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
In math, a statement that follows immediately from another statement that has been proved.
In geometry, the Pythagorean theorem has several corollaries.
Often appears as...
- mathematical corollary
- geometric corollary
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Progression
Corollary describes an outcome that seems a natural next step from something else.
Increased greenhouse gas emissions are a corollary of unchecked industrial growth.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
A corollary can be negative or positive, often related to cause and effect.
The economic downturn was a natural corollary of the new government's policy.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Synonym
'Corollary' isn't always interchangeable with 'result' because it suggests inevitability.
She regarded the public outrage as the corollary of controversial legislation.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Progression
Corollary describes an outcome that seems a natural next step from something else.
Increased greenhouse gas emissions are a corollary of unchecked industrial growth.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
A corollary can be negative or positive, often related to cause and effect.
The economic downturn was a natural corollary of the new government's policy.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Synonym
'Corollary' isn't always interchangeable with 'result' because it suggests inevitability.
She regarded the public outrage as the corollary of controversial legislation.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Progression
Corollary describes an outcome that seems a natural next step from something else.
Increased greenhouse gas emissions are a corollary of unchecked industrial growth.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
A corollary can be negative or positive, often related to cause and effect.
The economic downturn was a natural corollary of the new government's policy.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Synonym
'Corollary' isn't always interchangeable with 'result' because it suggests inevitability.
She regarded the public outrage as the corollary of controversial legislation.
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Andrew Blum: What is the...
And I was particularly interested because I wanted to see one of these cables being built. See, you know, all the time online we experience these fleeting moments of connection, these sort of brief adjacencies, a tweet or a Facebook post or an email, and it seemed like there was a physical corollary to that. It seemed like there was a moment when the continent
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How synthetic biology...
this is a nonzero population. There's plenty of suicidal nihilists out there. We've already seen that. There's people with severe mood disorders that they can't even control. There are people who have just suffered deranging traumas, etc. etc. As for the corollary group, its size was simply zero forever until the Cold War,
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What is the Internet,...
incredible expanse of this and I was particularly interested because I wanted to see one of these cables being built see all the time online we experienced these fleeting moments of connection these sort of brief adjacencies a tweet or a Facebook post or an email and it seemed like there was a physical corollary to that
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Why you don’t like the...
Well, evolutionarily that might make sense, because we know cognitively what we are going to sound like so maybe we don't need to spend energy analyzing the signal. And this is called a corollary discharge and it happens for every motion that your body does. The exact definition of a corollary discharge
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Don Tapscott: Four...
have these powerful tools for finding out what's going on, scrutinizing, informing others, and even organizing collective responses. Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked, well, there's some corollaries that flow from that. I mean, one is, fitness is no longer optional.
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Food Security in an...
cell phones as extension tools radio is extension to lots of ways to promote and disseminate technologies more a corollary to that that's actually also very important is making sure there's equitable access to those technologies so those technologies are available to
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What if You Could Sing...
that I didn't sing from a set of recorded phrases that I did sing. I like to think of spawning as a kind of 21st-century corollary to the musical tradition of sampling, which had a really big impact on both music and intellectual property.
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What happens when our...
So this then seems pretty obvious that everything we've achieved, and everything we care about, depends crucially on some relatively minor changes that made the human mind. And the corollary, of course, is that any further changes
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Frank Drake’s Cosmic...
what these telescopes are going to see it's gonna be wild it's gonna be wild so now that we know there are so many planets the corollary question do any of them contain life has become a research
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Asking where consciousnes...
important question where does consciousness come from is consciousness actually produced by all those complex neural circuits that we call the brain here's the corollary question if I were
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Andrew Blum: What is the...
And I was particularly interested because I wanted to see one of these cables being built. See, you know, all the time online we experience these fleeting moments of connection, these sort of brief adjacencies, a tweet or a Facebook post or an email, and it seemed like there was a physical corollary to that. It seemed like there was a moment when the continent
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How synthetic biology...
this is a nonzero population. There's plenty of suicidal nihilists out there. We've already seen that. There's people with severe mood disorders that they can't even control. There are people who have just suffered deranging traumas, etc. etc. As for the corollary group, its size was simply zero forever until the Cold War,
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What is the Internet,...
incredible expanse of this and I was particularly interested because I wanted to see one of these cables being built see all the time online we experienced these fleeting moments of connection these sort of brief adjacencies a tweet or a Facebook post or an email and it seemed like there was a physical corollary to that
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Why you don’t like the...
Well, evolutionarily that might make sense, because we know cognitively what we are going to sound like so maybe we don't need to spend energy analyzing the signal. And this is called a corollary discharge and it happens for every motion that your body does. The exact definition of a corollary discharge
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Don Tapscott: Four...
have these powerful tools for finding out what's going on, scrutinizing, informing others, and even organizing collective responses. Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked, well, there's some corollaries that flow from that. I mean, one is, fitness is no longer optional.
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Food Security in an...
cell phones as extension tools radio is extension to lots of ways to promote and disseminate technologies more a corollary to that that's actually also very important is making sure there's equitable access to those technologies so those technologies are available to
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What if You Could Sing...
that I didn't sing from a set of recorded phrases that I did sing. I like to think of spawning as a kind of 21st-century corollary to the musical tradition of sampling, which had a really big impact on both music and intellectual property.
Video examples
What happens when our...
So this then seems pretty obvious that everything we've achieved, and everything we care about, depends crucially on some relatively minor changes that made the human mind. And the corollary, of course, is that any further changes
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Frank Drake’s Cosmic...
what these telescopes are going to see it's gonna be wild it's gonna be wild so now that we know there are so many planets the corollary question do any of them contain life has become a research
Video examples
Asking where consciousnes...
important question where does consciousness come from is consciousness actually produced by all those complex neural circuits that we call the brain here's the corollary question if I were
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Robert Picardo
American Actor
What's wonderful about 'Star Trek' having been rebooted so successfully by the J. J. Abrams movie franchise is that - the corollary effect is that it creates a new generation of fans, and they're interested in all of it. They don't just sit around and wait for the next movie to come out; they'll go back and re-examine episodes.
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Drew Pinsky
American Celebrity
Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As a corollary to affect regulation, self-esteem, sense of self and inter-personal functioning all goes downhill. And that's a chronic thing that's solved in an-inter personal context.
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Maeve Binchy
Irish Novelist
I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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Andrew Solomon
Writer
We think that fear must be played out in fight, with military intervention, or in flight, via isolationism - but we are not hunted game, and those are not the only options. There is also the possibility of acceptance, with its corollary of understanding and its ultimate manifestation in embracing.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Like it or not, I've come to appreciate soccer. Any kid can play, which fits with the inclusive agenda of progressive schools. Although the corollary to 'any kid can play' is that every kid must play because there is an iron grip to the warm hug of progressive inclusionism.
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Rene Cassin
French Judge
As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.
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Jonah Peretti
American Businessman
One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.
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Esther Dyson
American Businesswoman
But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
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Sam Yagan
American Businessman
My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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Owen King
American Author
One corollary of the wretchedness of the second trilogy of 'Star Wars' films has been the final, demented sanctification of the first trilogy of films.
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Robert Picardo
American Actor
What's wonderful about 'Star Trek' having been rebooted so successfully by the J. J. Abrams movie franchise is that - the corollary effect is that it creates a new generation of fans, and they're interested in all of it. They don't just sit around and wait for the next movie to come out; they'll go back and re-examine episodes.
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Drew Pinsky
American Celebrity
Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As a corollary to affect regulation, self-esteem, sense of self and inter-personal functioning all goes downhill. And that's a chronic thing that's solved in an-inter personal context.
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Maeve Binchy
Irish Novelist
I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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Andrew Solomon
Writer
We think that fear must be played out in fight, with military intervention, or in flight, via isolationism - but we are not hunted game, and those are not the only options. There is also the possibility of acceptance, with its corollary of understanding and its ultimate manifestation in embracing.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Like it or not, I've come to appreciate soccer. Any kid can play, which fits with the inclusive agenda of progressive schools. Although the corollary to 'any kid can play' is that every kid must play because there is an iron grip to the warm hug of progressive inclusionism.
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Rene Cassin
French Judge
As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.
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Jonah Peretti
American Businessman
One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.
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Esther Dyson
American Businesswoman
But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
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Sam Yagan
American Businessman
My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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Owen King
American Author
One corollary of the wretchedness of the second trilogy of 'Star Wars' films has been the final, demented sanctification of the first trilogy of films.
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