Barrier vs Implication - What's the difference?
barrier | implication |
A structure that bars passage.
An obstacle or impediment.
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A boundary or limit.
(uncountable) The act of implicating.
(uncountable) The state of being implicated.
(countable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
* 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
(countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".
As nouns the difference between barrier and implication
is that barrier is a structure that bars passage while implication is (uncountable) the act of implicating.barrier
English
(wikipedia barrier)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier . But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
Derived terms
* barrier reef * color barrier * crash barrier * diffusion-barrier * half-barrier * ice barrier * language barrier * racial barrier * sound barrier * tilt barrier * tire barrier * toll barrierimplication
English
Noun
- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.