implication

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act of implicating or the condition of being implicated.
• noun The act of implying or the condition of being implied.
• noun Something that is implied, especially.
• noun An indirect indication; a suggestion.
• noun An implied meaning; implicit significance.
• noun An inference.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated; involution; entanglement.
• noun That which is implied but not expressed; an inference that may be drawn from what is said or observed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.
• noun An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable The act of implicating.
• noun uncountable The state of being implicated.
• noun 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.
• noun logic (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".

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement)
• noun an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection
• noun a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false
• noun something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
• noun a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred