implication

Meanings

1. The act of implicating.
2. The state of being implicated.
3. A possible, or indirect, effect or result of a decision or action.
4. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
5. 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".
6. Logical consequence.

Etymology

From Middle French implication, from Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).Equivalent to implicate + -ion.