Hypertext Webster Gateway: "entailment"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Entailment \En*tail"ment\, n.
1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and
directing the mode of descent.
2. The condition of being entailed.
3. A thing entailed.
Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an
ever weakening force. --R. L.
Dugdale.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
entailment
n : something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied);
"his resignation had political implications" [syn: {deduction},
{implication}]
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