Main entry: deduction, entailment, implication
Definition: something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
Usage: his resignation had political implications
Main entry: significance, implication, import
Definition: 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
Main entry: implication
Definition: an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection
Main entry: implication
Definition: a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement)
Usage: he was suspected of implication in several robberies
Main entry: implication, conditional relation, logical implication
Definition: a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false