different between implied vs corollary

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pla?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Adjective

implied (comparative more implied, superlative most implied)

1. Suggested without being stated directly; implicated or hinted at.

Antonyms

• (suggested without being stated): verbal, express

Derived terms

• impliedly

Related terms

• implicit

Translations

Verb

implied

1. simple past tense and past participle of imply

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.