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implication

/ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/

noun

Meaning

  • The act of implicating.

  • The state of being implicated.

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

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

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

  • 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.