Corollary vs Supplementary - What's the difference?
corollary | supplementary | Related terms |
Something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.
Something which occurs a fortiori , as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
(mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the proof of another proposition.
Corollary is a related term of supplementary.
As a noun corollary
is something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.As an adjective supplementary is
additional; added to supply what is wanted.corollary
English
Noun
(corollaries)- Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefont.
- 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.
