consequent

Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.

His retirement and consequent spare time enabled him to travel more.

The advantages are a saving in weight of about one ton, with consequent reduction in energy consumption; a saving in paint (of some three to four cwt. per car), with a corresponding economy on subsequent overhauls; and lower cleaning costs.

Of or pertaining to consequences.

Of a stream, having a course determined by the slope it formed on.

The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q."

An event which follows another.

They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment.

The second term of a ratio, i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being the antecedent.

A consequent stream.

Consequents cannot get any better off than at first: they get all the drainage and cannot get more.