Consequent

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Following as a natural effect, result, or conclusion.
  • adjective. Following as a logical conclusion.
  • adjective. Logically correct or consistent.
  • adjective. Having a position or direction determined by the original form or slope of the earth's surface.
  • noun. The conclusion, as of a syllogism or a conditional sentence.
  • noun. The second term of a ratio.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Following as an effect or result, or as a necessary inference; having a relation of sequence: with on, or rarely to: as, the war and the consequent poverty; the poverty consequent on the war.
  • Following in time; subsequent.
  • Characterized by correctness of inference or connectedness of reasoning; logical: as, a consequent action.
  • noun. Effect or result; that which proceeds from a cause; outcome.
  • noun. In logic: That member of a hypothetical proposition which contains the conclusion. See antecedent. The conclusion of a consequence, or necessary inference conceived as consisting of an antecedent (or premise) and a consequent (or conclusion), and as governed by a consequence (or principle of consecution).
  • noun. 3. In music, same as comes, 3.
  • In physical geography, resulting directly from original conditions; having a course determined by the form or slope of an initial land-surface: as, a consequent divide, consequent drainage, a consequent river, a consequent valley, etc. Contrasted with insequent, 2, obsequent, 2, antecedent, 2.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
  • adjective. Following by necessary inference or rational deduction.
  • adjective. a number of poles distributed under certain conditions, along the axis of a magnetized steel bar, which regularly has but the two poles at the extremities.
  • adjective. undefined
  • noun. That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.
  • noun. That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.
  • noun. The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to consequences.
  • noun. The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q."
  • noun. An event which follows another.
  • noun. The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being the antecedent.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. following or accompanying as a consequence
  • Word Usage
    "From this perspective, at least, it would seem that the Greeks did not think of sexual relationships as divided up along the line of the sexes of the participants as we do, and by implication at least, that they experienced desire differently in consequent ways."
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