implications

Noun

implication (countable and uncountable, plural implications)

1. (uncountable) The act of implicating.
2. (uncountable) The state of being implicated.
3. (countable) 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. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
   • Dennis Reynolds: What do you mean what do we need a mattress for? Why in the hell do you think we just spent all that money on a boat? The whole purpose of buying the boat in the first place was to get the ladies nice and tipsy topside so we can take 'em to a nice comfortable place below deck and...2010 September 30, Charlie Day, Rob McElhenney, directed by Randall Einhorn, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 6, episode 3 (The Gang Buys a Boat) (Black Comedy), spoken by Dennis Reynolds...
5. (countable) 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. Logical consequence.