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entailment

/ɛnˈteɪl.mənt/

noun entailments · intailment

countable, uncountable The act of logically entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed. Entailment does not imply causation: if a set of premisses entail a conclusion, that does not mean (necessarily) that they cause that conclusion to be true.
countable, uncountable The act of setting up an entail to restrict inheritance. That no entailment of lands shall continue to entail Robinson etc. the same, in any case whatever, longer than the life of the person to whom the same hath been, or shall be, first devised, by such entailment.
countable, nonstandard, uncountable An entail. And notwithstanding this turning clause was put in, yet it was afterwards construed to be a will giving an entailment of the real property to the old man's grandchildren, which was not the case.

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noun state of being entailed

Français	implication
Deutsch	Bedingtheit, Erfordernis, Implikation
Italiano	implicazione
Русский	импликация implikacija

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@misc{entailment_2026,
  title = {entailment},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/entailment},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}