I came across this adverb (naturally) while reading a math book. In this book, a concept (extended complex plane) has been defined before and now the book says it can be motivated even more naturally by another mathematical concept (linear fractional transformations).
The extended complex plane...can now be motivated even more naturally by linear fractional transformations as follows.
I have searched in all available dictionaries and I have found some meanings but I don't know which meaning is more appropriate.
These are what I have found:
- in a way that you would expect
examples:
After a while, we naturally started talking about the children.
His death has naturally come as a shock to us all.
- in a way that makes sense : in a logical and reasonable way
examples:
Her conclusions follow naturally from the theory.
Questions about the journalist's sources arise naturally from such a controversial report.
When I saw that there were no lights on in the house, I naturally assumed you were asleep.