entailment
/ɛnˈteɪl.mənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of logically entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Entailment does not imply causation: if a set of premisses entail a conclusion, that does not mean (necessarily) that they cause that conclusion to be true."
- "An argument hinges upon entailment whereas an if-then sentence hinges upon implication."
- "That's not an extension at all. It's simply an obvious entailment of the original promise."
- "In general, every language (and, hence, every language of every theory) has numerous entailment relations on it."
- "The barriers that this book is about —barriers to entailment — concern the relation of logical consequence ( or its lack. )"
- "That no entailment of lands shall continue to entail Robinson etc. the same, in any case whatever, longer than the life of the person to whom the same hath been, or shall be, first devised, by such entailment."
Etymology
Etymology tree English entail Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English entailment From entail + -ment.