implication
[im-pli-key-shuhn]
- something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood: to resent an implication of dishonesty.
- the act of implying: His implication of immediate changes surprised us.
- the state of being implied: to know only by implication.
- Logic. the relation that holds between two propositions, or classes of propositions, in virtue of which one is logically deducible from the other.
- the act of implicating or indicating that one or more persons may be involved, as in a crime: The implication of his accomplices came only after hours of grueling questioning by the police.
- the state of being implicated: We recently heard of his implication in a conspiracy.
- Usually implications. relationships of a close or intimate nature; involvements: the religious implications of ancient astrology.
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connotationmeaningindicationsignificanceramificationovertoneconclusionpresumptionguessinferencereferencehintinnuendoassumptionentanglementunionconnectionundertoneinvolvementintimationExamples from the Web for implications
Contemporary Examples
An overwhelming amount of subtleties and implications were going over my head.
Harris declined to comment to The Daily Beast on the implications of Initiative 71 for members of Congress.
In an effort to cope with the implications of this question, Americans have subtly but sweepingly shifted their ideals.
Well, the implications would be many and weighty, both for the diminished USA and for the new entity.
We all got involved and got ourselves in trouble by really not looking at the implications of it.
Historical Examples
"I cannot answer it," he said, but very firmly, in a tone that brushed aside all implications.
The Sea-HawkRaphael Sabatini
I'll tell you this much, there are implications about this case that fascinate me!
We're Friends, NowHenry Hasse
Let us now consider some of the implications of this concentration on rendering service.
Creating CapitalFrederick L. Lipman
How do these implications consist with the nebular hypothesis?
Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. IHerbert Spencer
But the men of the coast were not ready to admit its implications.
The Frontier in American HistoryFrederick Jackson Turner
implication
- the act of implicating or the state of being implicated
- something that is implied; suggestionthe implication of your silence is that you're bored
- logic
- the operator that forms a sentence from two given sentences and corresponds to the English if … then …
- a sentence so formed. Usually written p→q or p⊃q, where p,q are the component sentences, it is true except when p (the antecedent) is true and q (the consequent) is false
- the relation between such sentences
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Word Origin and History for implications
n.
see implication.
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implication
n.
early 15c., "action of entangling," from Latin implicationem (nominative implicatio) "interweaving, entanglement," from past participle stem of implicare "involve, entangle, connect closely," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + plicare "to fold" (see ply (v.1)). Meaning "something implied (but not expressed)" is from 1550s.
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