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Supporting vs Corollary - What's the difference?

supporting | corollary |

As an adjective supporting

is that supports.

As a verb supporting

is .

As a noun corollary is

something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.

supporting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That supports.

    • Derived terms

    * supporting actor * supporting aircraft * supporting arms * supporting artillery * supporting attack * supporting character

    Verb

    (head)

    • corollary

    English

    Noun

    (corollaries)
  • 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.
    • Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefont.
  • (mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the proof of another proposition.
    • 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.

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