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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" [syn: ensuant, resultant, resulting(a),
sequent]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Consequent : \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Consequent : \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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