'Entailment' definitions:
Definition of 'entailment'
From: WordNet
noun
Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications" [syn: deduction, entailment, implication]
Definition of 'Entailment'
From: GCIDE
- Entailment \En*tail"ment\, n.
- 1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The condition of being entailed. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A thing entailed. [1913 Webster]
- Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. --R. L. Dugdale. [1913 Webster]