(plural) a possible effect or result of a decision or action.
(countable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
“The implication was that security was breached in some way during the flight.”
“The unmistakable implication of the report's recommendations is that the program offered to the country by NASA over the past two decades does not have this characteristic.”
“The serious public health implication is that impaired crews may be unable to operate trains safely.”
(electrical engineering) On a Karnaugh map: a set of 1's (whose quantity is a power of two) which are related by adjacency (i.e., the set is connected, if the Karnaugh map is considered to be a graph which "wraps around" its edges, like a torus; and, all elements of the subgraph induced by the set have the same degree). Equivalently (in terms of Boolean algebra), a product term which, when true, always implies that the given Boolean function is true.
implicature
(pragmatics) An impliedmeaning that is not expressed directly.
“The approach combines a constrained-based semantics with a general mechanism of conversational implicature.”
“This is all implicature, and the shared understanding of the potential communication example means you should avoid situations which could annoy people.”
“It seems to me that virtually all jokes are based on implicature, too.”
“Various forms of implicitness are shown to contribute to different levels of text coherence as identified by different foci of relevance.”
“Whereas many researchers have discussed phenomena that relate to implicitness in texts, nobody has before to my knowledge made implicitness itself the main object of study.”
“Peacebuilding within the prevailing cultures and their implicitness of physical as well as of psycho-spiritual violence is doomed to fail.”
