Definition of entailment Entailment

en•tail•ment

We found 7 definitions of entailment from 5 different sources.

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What does entailment mean?

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

entailment - something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"
  deduction, implication
  illation, inference the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
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Wiktionary Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • entailment (Noun)
    The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • entailment (n.)
    The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
  • entailment (n.)
    The condition of being entailed.
  • entailment (n.)
    A thing entailed.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • entailment
    The relationship between statements that holds true when one logically "follows from" one or more others.

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