About The Word Consequent
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Consequent
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What's The Definition Of Consequent?
[adj] following as an effect or result; "the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness"; "the ensuant response to his appeal"; "the resultant savings were considerable"; "the health of the plants and the resulting flowers"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Consequent: ensuant | resultant | resulting(a) | sequent | subsequent Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Consequent In Webster's Dictionary \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.
The right was consequent to, and built on, an act
perfectly personal. --Locke.
2. (Logic) Following by necessary inference or rational
deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other
propositions.
{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.
\Con"se*quent\, n. 1. 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. --Sir J. Davies. 2. (Logic) That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference. 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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