implication

noun

• The act of implicating.
• The state of being implicated.
• (usually in the plural) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.

  "There are serious implications for the environment of such reforms."

• An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
• 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".
• Logical consequence.