implication

noun

Etymology: From Middle French implication, from Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).Equivalent to implicate + -ion.

1. The act of implicating.
2. The state of being implicated.
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.”

   “And while that number is expected to shift back slightly into positive territory over this decade, fewer children today establishes an unmistakable implication for tomorrow: fewer adults available as consumers, workers and taxpayers.”

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.”

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. Logical consequence.