implication

noun

1. 1

   The act of implicating.

2. 2

   The state of being implicated.

3. 3

   (usually in the plural) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.

   “There are serious implications for the environment of such reforms.”

4. 4

   An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.

5. 5

   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".

6. 6

   Logical consequence.