implication

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 8.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of implicating.
2. noun The state of being implicated.
3. noun A possible, or indirect, effect or result of a decision or action.

   Dumping waste in the river will have serious implications for the environment.

4. noun 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. noun 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. noun Logical consequence. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Similar words

significance entailment deduction import conditional relation implicating logical implication allusion hint implicit

Often followed by

of is that for in was being and the

Word family

by implication implicate implicated implicates implicating implications implicative implicatively implicativeness implicativenesses