different between accompanying vs corollary

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k?m.p(?.)ni.??/

Adjective

accompanying (comparative more accompanying, superlative most accompanying)

1. Present together.
   • (1848) Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life, Preface:

     The accompanying pages contain the unfinished Sketch of a Theory of Life by S. T. Coleridge.

Translations

References

• “accompanying” in Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

Verb

accompanying

1. present participle of accompany

Noun

accompanying (plural accompanyings)

1. That which accompanies; accompaniment.
   • 1839, William Thompson Bacon, Poems (page 46)

     He was seated / Among his equals; and a holiday / With its accompanyings — loud laughs, and jests, / And boisterous mirth — sped merrily […]

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Late Latin cor?ll?rium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, something extra; consequence, deduction”), from cor?lla (“small garland”), diminutive of cor?na (“crown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k????l??i/, /?k???l??i/
• (US) enPR: kôr'?l?r?, IPA^(key): /?k????l??i/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /k???o??l??i/

Noun

corollary (plural corollaries)

1. Something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.
2. 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 storefront.

3. (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.

Translations

Adjective

corollary (not comparable)

1. Occurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential.
2. (rare) Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.

Further reading

• corollary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• corollary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.