implication

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   something that is inferred, deduced, entailed, or implied

   The resignation had political implications.

2. 2
   noun

   a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection, especially an incriminating involvement

   We were suspected of implication in several robberies.

3. 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. 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.

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred

6. 6
   noun

   an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection

7. 7
   noun

   a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'

8. 8
   noun

   The act of implicating.

Etymology

From Middle French implication, from Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).Equivalent to implicate + -ion.