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Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Consequent

/kän'-sək-wənt/ · Con·se·quent · IPA /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwənt/
01 a. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
  1. 1.
    Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
    “The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal.” — Locke.
  2. 2.
    Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions.(Logic)
Phrases & compounds
Consequent points — 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.
02 n. That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.
  1. 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. 2.
    That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.(Logic)
  3. 3.
    The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.(Math.)