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Meaning of ENTAILMENT

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"
 
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 Synonyms: deduction, implication
 
 See Also: illation, inference

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\En*tail"ment\, n.
1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and
   directing the mode of descent.
2. The condition of being entailed.
3. A thing entailed.
         Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an
         ever weakening force.                 --R. L.
                                               Dugdale.
 

 

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