CONSEQUENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consequent mean? 

• CONSEQUENT (adjective)
  The adjective CONSEQUENT has 1 sense:

1. occurring with or following as a consequence

  Familiarity information: CONSEQUENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSEQUENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring with or following as a consequence

Synonyms:

accompanying; attendant; collateral; concomitant; consequent; ensuant; incidental; resultant; sequent

Context example:

collateral target damage from a bombing run

Similar:

subsequent (following in time or order)

Derivation:

consequence (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)

 Context examples 

Fore and aft there was nothing that could have surprised us more than his consequent behaviour.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He, in turn, realized what she had done, and in the consequent warm surge of gratefulness that overwhelmed him forgot his loose-worded tongue.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Therefore, he had disobeyed the will of both the gods, and earned the consequent punishment.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

After the involuntary shrinking consequent on the first nauseous whiff, we one and all set about our work as though that loathsome place were a garden of roses.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It suddenly struck her that it might be from Lady Catherine; and she anticipated with dismay all the consequent explanations.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Their mass is too small for full nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium (with a consequent release of energy) to take place, but they are usually significantly more massive than planets.

(Astronomers Identify Purest, Most Massive Brown Dwarf, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He imagined, and calmly could he imagine it, that her extravagance, and consequent distress, had obliged her to dispose of it for some immediate relief.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It is the major substrate for receptor-stimulated phosphoinositidase C, with the consequent formation of inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3) and diacylglycerol, and probably also for receptor-stimulated inositol phospholipid 3-kinase.

(Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate, NCI Thesaurus)

An abnormal increase in the number of cells in an organ or a tissue with consequent enlargement.

(Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by a long standing and persistent uncoordinated atrial myocardium activation due to multiple reentry circuits with consequent deterioration of atrial mechanical function.

(Chronic Atrial Fibrillation, NCI Thesaurus)