<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>following as an effect or result; resulting (often followed by on, upon, or to): a fall in price consequent to a rise in production.</li><li>following as a logical conclusion: a consequent law.</li><li>following or progressing logically: consequent reasoning.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>anything that follows upon something else, with or without a causal relationship.</li><li>Logic. the second member of a conditional proposition, as “Caesar was a great general” in “If Caesar conquered Gaul, he was a great general.”</li><li>Mathematics. the second term of a ratio.</li><li>the second of two vectors in a dyad.</li></ul>