imply

Definition

To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.

Etymology

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.

Example Sentences

• "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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