implication
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- n something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
his resignation had political implications - n a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
the expectation was spread both by word and by implication - n an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection
- n a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false
- n a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement)
he was suspected of implication in several robberies
- Fourteen years later, election night 1989, Wilder himself provided Virginia voters -- and, by implication, the nation as a whole -- with the most ambitious referendum on black .
- The implications of Pyongyang's new nuclear prowess extend beyond Northeast Asia.
- Consider the obvious implications if rights attain the moment the egg and sperm meet: all kinds of embryo research become questionable, starting with the stem-cell research McCain .