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Implication vs Complication - What's the difference?

implication | complication |

As nouns the difference between implication and complication

is that implication is the act of implicating while complication is the act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.

implication

English

Noun

  • (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)
  • 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.
  • (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".
  • Derived terms

    * material implication * strict implication

    complication

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia complication) (en noun)
  • The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
  • A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper; someone you need to placate.
  • (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
  • A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
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