Implication
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Origin
From Middle French implication, from Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).
Full definition of implication
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.
- (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".