Consequent /(?)/
Con·se·quent
Consequent
a.
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Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal.
- 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.
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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.
- That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference. (Logic)
- The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent. (Math.)