Definitions for: Entailment

[n] something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"

Webster (1913) Definition: En*tail"ment, n.
1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and
directing the mode of descent.

2. The condition of being entailed.

3. A thing entailed.

Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an
ever weakening force. --R. L.
Dugdale.

Synonyms: deduction, implication

See Also: illation, inference