Consequent (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. following as an effect or result; resulting (often followed by on, upon, or to): a fall in price consequent to a rise in production.
  2. following as a logical conclusion: a consequent law.
  3. following or progressing logically: consequent reasoning.
noun
  1. anything that follows upon something else, with or without a causal relationship.
  2. the second member of a conditional proposition, as “Caesar was a great general” in “If Caesar conquered Gaul, he was a great general.”
  3. Mathematics.
    • the second term of a ratio.
    • the second of two vectors in a dyad.
adjective
  1. following as an effect or result
  2. following as a logical conclusion or by rational argument
  3. (of a river) flowing in the direction of the original slope of the land or dip of the strata
noun
  1. something that follows something else, esp as a result
  2. the resultant clause in a conditional sentence
  3. the fallacy of inferring the antecedent of a conditional sentence, given the truth of the conditional and its consequent, as if John is six feet tall, he's more than five feet: he's more than five feet so he's six feet
  4. an obsolete term for denominator (def. 1)
Consequent (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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