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[syn: attendant, consequent, accompanying, concomitant, incidental, ensuant, resultant, sequent]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Consequent \Con"se*quent\, n.
1. That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or
natural effect.
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They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent
of ill payment. --Sir J.
Davies.
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2. (Logic) That which follows from propositions by rational
deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or
argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.
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3. (Math.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the
ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Consequent \Con"se*quent\, a. [L. consequens, -entis, p. pr. of
consequi to follow; con- + sequi to follow: cf. F.
cons['e]quent. See Second, and cf. Consecution.]
1. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
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The right was consequent to, and built on, an act
perfectly personal. --Locke.
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2. (Logic) Following by necessary inference or rational
deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other
propositions.
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Consequent points, Consequent poles (Magnetism), 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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
consequent
adj 1: following or accompanying as a consequence; "an excessive
growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems"; "snags
incidental to the changeover in management"; "attendant
circumstances"; "the period of tension and consequent
need for military preparedness"; "the ensuant response to
his appeal"; "the resultant savings were considerable"
[syn: attendant, consequent, accompanying,
concomitant, incidental, ensuant, resultant,
sequent]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "consequent":
appendant, consequential, derivational, derivative, ensuing, final,
following, intelligent, logical, next, posterior, postpositional,
postpositive, proximate, reasonable, resultant, resulting,
sensible, sequacious, sequent, sequential, sound, subsequent,
succeeding, successive, suffixed