Implication

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  • noun. The act of implicating or the condition of being implicated.
  • noun. The act of implying or the condition of being implied.
  • noun. Something that is implied, especially.
  • noun. An indirect indication; a suggestion.
  • noun. An implied meaning; implicit significance.
  • noun. An inference.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated; involution; entanglement.
  • noun. That which is implied but not expressed; an inference that may be drawn from what is said or observed.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.
  • noun. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of implicating.
  • noun. The state of being implicated.
  • noun. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
  • noun. (countable) 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".
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement)
  • noun. an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection
  • noun. a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false
  • noun. something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
  • noun. a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
  • Word Usage
    "The main implication is that the dripping water puts out the pilot from time to time, so unless you're constantly checking, you never know when your shower will be hot or cold."
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