entailment
The relationship between two sentences in which the truth of first sentence logically requires the truth of the second sentence. For example, "the man and woman got divorced" requires or entails that "the man and woman were married" as well.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Language
- Category: Linguistics
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