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What does "consequent" mean?

Consequent: (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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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. 3.(Logic) That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.
  3. 4.(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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