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adjective

Consequent adj.

1.

Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. "The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal."

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.

noun

Consequent 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."

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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