implication
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Etymology
From Middle French implication, from Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).Equivalent to implicate + -ion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
implication (countable and uncountable, plural implications)
- (uncountable) The act of implicating.
- (uncountable) The state of being implicated.
- (countable) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.
- There are serious implications for the environment of such reforms.
- (countable, uncountable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
- 2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology, page 168:
- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
- (countable, logic) 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".
- Logical consequence. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Translations
possible effect or result of a decision or action
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that which is implied, but not expressed
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logical connective
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logical consequence
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Further reading
- “implication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “implication”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin implicātiō. By surface analysis, impliquer + -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
implication f (plural implications)
Further reading
- “implication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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