ENTAILMENT

deduction, entailment, implication

(noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); “his resignation had political implications”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

entailment (countable and uncountable, plural entailments)

The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.

Source: Wiktionary


En*tail"ment, n.

1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.

2. The condition of being entailed.

3. A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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