implication : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: implication	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for implication
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
implication n something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications" Synonym(s): deduction, entailment, implication a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred; "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication" Synonym(s): significance, import, implication an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false Synonym(s): implication, logical implication, conditional relation a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement); "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Implication \Im`plica"tion\, n. [L. implicatio: cf. F. implication.] 1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication* of component parts. --Boyle. 2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words. Whatever things, therefore, it was asserted that the king might do, it was a necessary implication that there were other things which he could not do. --Hallam.