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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Following as a natural effect, result, or conclusion.
  • adjective Following as a logical conclusion.
  • adjective Logically correct or consistent.
  • adjective Geology Having a position or direction determined by the original form or slope of the earth's surface.
  • noun Logic The conclusion, as of a syllogism or a conditional sentence.
  • noun The second term of a ratio.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In physical geography, resulting directly from original conditions; having a course determined by the form or slope of an initial land-surface: as, a consequent divide, consequent drainage, a consequent river, a consequent valley, etc. Contrasted with insequent, 2, obsequent, 2, antecedent, 2.
  • Following as an effect or result, or as a necessary inference; having a relation of sequence: with on, or rarely to: as, the war and the consequent poverty; the poverty consequent on the war.
  • Following in time; subsequent.
  • Characterized by correctness of inference or connectedness of reasoning; logical: as, a consequent action.
  • noun Effect or result; that which proceeds from a cause; outcome.
  • noun In logic: That member of a hypothetical proposition which contains the conclusion. See antecedent. The conclusion of a consequence, or necessary inference conceived as consisting of an antecedent (or premise) and a consequent (or conclusion), and as governed by a consequence (or principle of consecution).
  • noun 3. In music, same as comes, 3.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
  • adjective (Logic) Following by necessary inference or rational deduction.
  • adjective (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.
  • noun That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.
  • noun (Logic) That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.
  • noun (Math.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to consequences.
  • noun logic The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q."
  • noun An event which follows another.
  • noun mathematics The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being the antecedent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective following or accompanying as a consequence

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cōnsequēns, cōnsequent-, present participle of cōnsequī, to follow closely : com-, intensive pref.; see com– + sequī, to follow; see sekw- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin consequens, consequentis, present participle of consequi ("to follow"), from con- + sequi ("to follow"). Compare French conséquent.

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