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implication

Pronunciation: /ɛ̃.pli.ka.sjɔ̃/

“implication” is a French word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. involvement
  2. implication

In French

  1. Action d’impliquer, état d’une personne impliquée dans une affaire criminelle.
  2. Contradiction, au sujet de propositions contradictoires.
  3. Relation logique entre deux propositions ou affirmations telles que la réalisation de la première entraine la réalisation de la seconde.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin implicātiō. By surface analysis, impliquer + -ation.

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