noun
- Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied. )
- usage: "his resignation had political implications"
- synonyms: deduction, entailment
- A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred.
- usage: "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
- synonyms: significance, import
- An accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection.
- A logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false.
- synonyms: logical implication, conditional relation
- A relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement. )
- usage: "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"
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