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corollary in Portuguese

corollary in Portuguese is corolário — corollary means something extra given on top of what is actually owed.

corollary in Portuguese

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

What does "corollary" mean?

  1. noun Something extra given on top of what is actually owed.
  2. noun Something that happens as a side effect of another action, with no extra effort needed to bring it about.
    "Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront."
  3. noun A statement that follows directly and easily once another statement has been proved.
    "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."
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corollary in a sentence

  • Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.
  • 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.

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What is "corollary" in Portuguese?
"corollary" in Portuguese is corolário. corollary means: Something extra given on top of what is actually owed.
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