"entailment" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɛnˈteɪl.mənt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-entailment.wav [US] Forms: entailments [plural]
Etymology: entail + -ment Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|entail|ment}} entail + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} entailment (countable and uncountable, plural entailments)
  1. The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed. Wikipedia link: entailment Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Logic Synonyms: intailment [rare] Related terms: material implication Translations (state of being entailed): implicatie [feminine] (Dutch), implication [feminine] (French), Bedingtheit [feminine] (German), Erfordernis [feminine] (German), Implikation [feminine] (German), ősiség [singular] (Hungarian), импликация (implikacija) [feminine] (Russian)

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