implication
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle French implication, from Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).Equivalent to implicate + -ion.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit]implication (countable and uncountable, plural implications)
- (uncountable) The act of implicating.
- (uncountable) The state of being implicated.
- (countable) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.
- Dumping waste in the river will have serious implications for the environment.
- 2021 April 23, Ronald Brownstein, “The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward”, in CNN[1]:
- 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.
- 2024 February 5, Stephen Collinson, “Trump’s legal battles are at a critical moment with major implications for the 2024 election”, in CNN[2]:
- 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.
- (countable, uncountable) 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".
- Logical consequence. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]possible effect or result of a decision or action
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that which is implied, but not expressed
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logical connective
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logical consequence
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Further reading
[edit]- “implication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “implication”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin implicātiō. By surface analysis, impliquer + -ation.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]implication f (plural implications)
Further reading
[edit]- “implication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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