Definitions
express or state indirectly
Word origin
From Middle English implien, emplien, borrowed from Old French emplier, from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). Doublet of employ and implicate.
Used in a sentence
“Correlation does not imply causation”
“The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal.”
“Our upper bound is the best possible, and it implies the existence of low-rank factorizations of positive semidefinite bivariate matrix polynomials and representations of biforms as sums of few squares.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Hint at”5 letters
02“Suggest indirectly”5 letters
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