Consequent

a.	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 (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.
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.

Adj.

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consequent - 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" Synonyms: ensuant, resultant, resulting, sequent

appendant, consequential, derivational, derivative, ensuing, final, following, intelligent, logical, next, posterior, postpositional, postpositive, proximate, reasonable, resultant, resulting, sensible, sequacious, sequent, sequential, sound, subsequent, succeeding, successive, suffixed

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