implication

Plural

implications

1. 1.The act of implicating.

2. 2.The state of being implicated.

3. 3.A possible, or indirect, effect or result of a decision or action.

   • Dumping waste in the river will have serious implications for the environment.

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.

   • 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.

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