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/ˌɪmplɪˈkeɪʃən/
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/ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/
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ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən
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The act of implicating.
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The state of being implicated.
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A possible, or indirect, effect or result of a decision or action.
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Dumping waste in the river will have serious implications for the environment.
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And while that number is expected to shift back slightly into positive territory over this decade, fewer children today establishes an unmistakable implication for tomorrow: fewer adults available as consumers, workers and taxpayers.
With his legal maneuverings, Trump is showing that he also understands the implications of this election — one that could give him substantial powers as president to defray or dismiss many of the legal threats that he’s facing and to behave in office without future accountability.
An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
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Dennis Reynolds: What do you mean what do we need a mattress for? Why in the hell do you think we just spent all that money on a boat? The whole purpose of buying the boat in the first place was to get the ladies nice and tipsy topside so we can take 'em to a nice comfortable place below deck and, you know, they can't refuse, because of the implication. Mac: Oh, uh... okay. You had me going there for the first part, the second half kinda threw me. Dennis Reynolds: Well dude, dude, think about it: she's out in the middle of nowhere with some dude she barely knows. You know, she looks around and what does she see? Nothin' but open ocean. "Ahh, there's nowhere for me to run. What am I gonna do, say 'no'?" Mac: Okay. That... that seems really dark. Dennis Reynolds: Nah, no it's not dark. You're misunderstanding me, bro. Mac: I'm-I think I am. Dennis Reynolds: Yeah, you are, because if the girl said "no" then the answer obviously is "no"... Mac: No, right. Dennis Reynolds: But the thing is she's not gonna say "no", she would never say "no" because of the implication. Mac: Now you've said that word "implication" a couple of times. What implication? Dennis Reynolds: The implication that things might go wrong for her if she refuses to sleep with me. Now, not that things are gonna go wrong for her but she's thinkin' that they will.
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.
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".
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Logical consequence.
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something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
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his resignation had political implications
a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
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the significance of his remark became clear only later
the expectation was spread both by word and by implication
an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection
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a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form ‘if p then q’; if p is true then q cannot be false
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a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement)
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he was suspected of implication in several robberies