consequent

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Following as a natural effect, result, or conclusion: tried to prevent an oil spill and the consequent damage to wildlife.
2. adj. Following as a logical conclusion.
3. adj. Logically correct or consistent.
4. adj. Geology Having a position or direction determined by the original form or slope of the earth's surface: a consequent river; a consequent valley.
5. n. Logic The conclusion, as of a syllogism or a conditional sentence.
6. n. The second term of a ratio.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Following as an effect or result, or as a necessary inference; having a relation of sequence: with on, or rarely to: as, the war and the consequent poverty; the poverty consequent on the war.
2. Following in time; subsequent.
3. Characterized by correctness of inference or connectedness of reasoning; logical: as, a consequent action.
4. n. Effect or result; that which proceeds from a cause; outcome.
5. n. In logic: That member of a hypothetical proposition which contains the conclusion. See antecedent. The conclusion of a consequence, or necessary inference conceived as consisting of an antecedent (or premise) and a consequent (or conclusion), and as governed by a consequence (or principle of consecution).
6. n. 3. In music, same as comes, 3.
7. In physical geography, resulting directly from original conditions; having a course determined by the form or slope of an initial land-surface: as, a consequent divide, consequent drainage, a consequent river, a consequent valley, etc. Contrasted with insequent, 2, obsequent, 2, antecedent, 2.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
2. adj. Of or pertaining to consequences.
3. n. logic The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of proposition is "If P, then Q."
4. n. An event which follows another.
5. n. mathematics The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being the antecedent.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
2. adj. (Logic) Following by necessary inference or rational deduction.
3. n. That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.
4. n. (Logic) That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.
5. n. (Math.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. following or accompanying as a consequence