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".

Noun

(en noun)

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.

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* Shakespeare

Give me advantage of some brief discourse.

* Macaulay

the advantages of a close alliance

(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.

* Bible, 2 Corinthians ii. 11

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.

Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.

(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in a advantageous position.

* November 17 2012 , BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham

Webb played an advantage that enabled Cazorla to supply a low cross from the left for Giroud to sweep home first time, despite Gallas and Vertonghen being in close attendance.

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

* Shakespeare

And with advantage means to pay thy love.