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Webster 1913 Edition
Implication
Imˊpli-ca′tion
,Noun.
[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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Implication
IMPLICA'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of infolding or involving.2.
Involution; entanglement. Three principal causes of firmness are, the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of the component parts.
3.
An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; a tacit inference, or something fairly to be understood,though not expressed in words. The doctors are, by implication of a different opinion.
Definition 2024
implication
implication
English
Noun
implication (countable and uncountable, plural implications)
- (uncountable) The act of implicating.
- (uncountable) The state of being implicated.
- (countable) 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.
- 2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
- (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.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
that which is implied, but not expressed
logical connective
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logical consequence
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External links
- implication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- implication in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
French
Etymology
From Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).
Noun
implication f (plural implications)