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implication

Pronunciation: /ˌɪmplɪˈkeɪʃən/

The English word “implication” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The act of implicating.
  2. The state of being implicated.
  3. A possible, or indirect, effect or result of a decision or action.
  4. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
  5. 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".
  6. Logical consequence.

Etymology

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

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