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Implication vs Implementation - What's the difference?

implication | implementation |

As nouns the difference between implementation and implication

is that implementation is the process of moving an idea from concept to reality. In business, engineering and other fields, implementation refers to the building process rather than the design process while implication is the act of implicating.

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

    implementation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of moving an idea from concept to reality. In business, engineering and other fields, implementation refers to the building process rather than the design process.
  • Now that the requirements are complete we can move on to implementation .
  • (electronics) A result of implementing something; a finished product, system or device.
  • His implementation works, but it needs some fine-tuning.

    Derived terms

    * reference implementation