implication

Meaning

Noun

  • The act of implicating.
  • The state of being implicated.
  • A possible effect or result of a decision or action.
  • 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.

Origin

  • From Middle French implication, from Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).Equivalent to implicate + -ion.

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