consequent

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French conséquent , from Latin consequens, consequentem, present participle of consequi (“to follow”), from con- + sequi (“to follow”). Compare French conséquent.

adj

1. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
   His retirement and consequent spare time enabled him to travel more.
   Elsewhere in this issue, for example, an article on the new pattern of freight train operation in the N.E.R. consequent upon the opening this summer of its three mechanised marshalling yards shows that one effect will be a further step-up in the speed of the East Coast main line freight traffic. 1963 July, “News and Comment: Roller bearings for freight stock”, in Modern Railways, pages 5–6
2. Of or pertaining to consequences.
3. (geology) Of a stream, having a course determined by the slope it formed on.

noun

1. (logic) The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q."
2. An event which follows another.
   They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment. 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
3. (mathematics) The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being the antecedent.
4. (geology) A consequent stream.
   Consequents cannot get any better off than at first: they get all the drainage and cannot get more. 1899, Sydney Savory Buckman, “The Development of Rivers”, in Natural Science, page 275