Consequent /(?)/

Con·se·quent

Consequent

a.
  1. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
    The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal.
  2. Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions. (Logic)

Phrases & Compounds

Consequent points
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.

Consequent

n.
  1. That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.
    They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment.
  2. That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference. (Logic)
  3. The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent. (Math.)