Implication and Involution

noun

• Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied. )
  • usage: "his resignation had political implications"
  • synonyms: deduction, entailment
• A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred.
  • usage: "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
  • synonyms: significance, import
• An accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection.
• A logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false.
  • synonyms: logical implication, conditional relation
• A relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement. )
  • usage: "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"

• (n.) An implying or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
• (n.) The act of implicating or the state of being implicated.

noun

• Reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth. )
• A long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction.
• Marked by elaborately complex detail.
  • synonyms: elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy
• The act of sharing in the activities of a group.
  • usage: "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"
  • synonyms: engagement, participation, involvement
• The process of raising a quantity to some assigned power.
  • synonyms: exponentiation
• The action of enfolding something.
  • synonyms: enfolding

• (n.) The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement.
• (n.) The act of involving or infolding.
• (n.) The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy.
• (n.) The relation which exists between three or more sets of points, a.a', b.b', c.c', so related to a point O on the line, that the product Oa.Oa' = Ob.Ob' = Oc.Oc' is constant. Sets of lines or surfaces possessing corresponding properties may be in involution.
• (n.) That in which anything is involved, folded or wrapped; envelope.
• (n.) The act or process of raising a quantity to any power assigned; the multiplication of a quantity into itself a given number of times; -- the reverse of evolution.
• (n.) The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction.