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接連發生的事情,結果必然的,當然的

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Consequent \Con"se*quent\, a. [L. consequens, -entis, p. pr. of
   consequi to follow; con- + sequi to follow: cf. F.
   cons['e]quent. See {Second}, and cf. {Consecution}.]
   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}, {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.

Consequent \Con"se*quent\, 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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

consequent
     adj : 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" [syn: {ensuant}, {resultant}, {resulting(a)},
            {sequent}]