IMPLICATION

deduction, entailment, implication

(noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); ā€œhis resignation had political implicationsā€

significance, import, implication

(noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred; ā€œthe significance of his remark became clear only laterā€; ā€œthe expectation was spread both by word and by implicationā€

implication

(noun) an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection

implication

(noun) a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement); ā€œhe was suspected of implication in several robberiesā€

implication, logical implication, conditional relation

(noun) a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form ā€˜if p then qā€™; if p is true then q cannot be false

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

implication (countable and uncountable, plural implications)

(uncountable) The act of implicating.

(uncountable) The state of being implicated.

(countable, usually, in the plural) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.

• There are serious implications for the environment of such reforms.

(countable, uncountable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.

(countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".

Logical consequence.

Source: Wiktionary


Im`pli*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. implicatio: cf. F. implication.]

1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle.

2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words. Whatever things, therefore, it was asserted that the king might do, it was a necessary implication that there were other things which he could not do. Hallam.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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