Corollary vs Twin - What's the difference?
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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.
Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
(US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
A twin crystal.
(modifier) Forming a pair of twins.
(modifier) Forming a matched pair.
(transitive, obsolete, outside, Scotland) To separate, divide.
(intransitive, obsolete, outside, Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
(usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries).
* Tennyson
To give birth to twins.
* 1874 , Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
(obsolete) To be born at the same birth.
As nouns the difference between corollary and twin
is that corollary is something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous while twin is either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.As a verb twin is
to separate, divide.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.
External links
* *twin
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Alternative forms
* twynne (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- the twin boys
- twin socks
Derived terms
* conjoined twin * identical twin * Siamese twin *twincestSynonyms
* twindle, twinling, doublet (in the sense of twins and triplets)See also
* twyndyllyng * (hotel room) single, double * twainVerb
(twinn)- Placetown in England is twinned with Machinville in France.
- For example, Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both cities having been heavily bombed during the war.
- Still we moved / Together, twinned , as horse's ear and eye.
- “I’ve run to tell ye,” said the junior shepherd, supporting his exhausted youthful frame against the doorpost, “that you must come directly. Two more ewes have twinned — that’s what’s the matter, Shepherd Oak.”
- (Shakespeare)
