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English Dictionary: entailment by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
entailment
n
  1. something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"
    Synonym(s): deduction, entailment, implication
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Entailment \En*tail"ment\, n.
      1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and
            directing the mode of descent.
  
      2. The condition of being entailed.
  
      3. A thing entailed.
  
                     Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an
                     ever weakening force.                        --R. L.
                                                                              Dugdale.
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