capital vs consequent

capital

adj
  • Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death. 

  • Of prime importance. 

  • Of or relating to the head. 

  • used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness 

  • Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation. 

  • Uppercase. 

noun
  • A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it. 

  • Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system. 

  • Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures). 

  • The most important city in the field specified. 

  • An uppercase letter. 

  • The uppermost part of a column. 

  • Knowledge; awareness; proficiency. 

  • The chief or most important thing. 

consequent

adj
  • Of or pertaining to consequences. 

  • Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. 

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

noun
  • An event which follows another. 

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

  • A consequent stream. 

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

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