Hypertext Webster Gateway: "implication"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Implication \Im`pli*ca"tion\, n. [L. implicatio: cf. F.
implication.]
1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.
Three principal causes of firmness are. the
grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of
component parts. --Boyle.
2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed;
an inference, or something which may fairly be understood,
though not expressed in words.
Whatever things, therefore, it was asserted that the
king might do, it was a necessary implication that
there were other things which he could not do.
--Hallam.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
implication
n 1: something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied);
"his resignation had political implications" [syn: {deduction},
{entailment}]
2: a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred;
"the significance of his remark became clear only later";
"the expectation was spread both by word and by
implication" [syn: {significance}, {import}]
3: a charge that implicates someone (usually of wrongdoing)
4: a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form
`if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false [syn: {logical
implication}, {conditional relation}]
5: a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close
connection (especially an incriminating involvement); "he
was suspected of implication in several robberies"
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