entailment
gb/ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/ us/ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
C1
Anglais
következmény, vonzat, logikai következmény, implikáció, hitbizomány, fideikomisszum
NOM
C1
FORMAL
1
következmény
B2
vonzat
C1
Schéma d’usage :
the entailment(s) of [something]; [something] has entailments for [someone/something]
The report examines the political entailments of the proposed security law.
A jelentés a javasolt biztonsági törvény politikai vonzatait vizsgálja.
Accepting the theory has serious entailments for how we understand human memory.
Az elmélet elfogadása komoly következményekkel jár arra nézve, hogyan értjük az emberi emlékezetet.
The ethical entailments of the technology were not discussed at the launch.
Exemples pédagogiques
The decision had financial entailments for the whole family.
A döntésnek az egész családra nézve pénzügyi következményei voltak.
We need to think about the entailments of this plan.
Át kell gondolnunk ennek a tervnek a következményeit.
Erreur fréquente :
Do not confuse the noun entailment with the verb entail: say “This entails costs,” but “the entailments of this decision.”
Sens
Necessary implication or consequence
Collocations
broader entailments
|practical entailments
|social entailments
|political entailments
|ethical entailments
|legal entailments
|economic entailments
|the entailments of a decision
|consider the entailments
|understand the entailments
Synonymes
implication (more common and less formal)
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consequence (focuses on the result rather than the necessary connection)
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ramification (often suggests a complex or unwanted consequence)
Antonymes
cause (what produces something, rather than what follows from it)
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premise (the starting point from which something may follow)
Thèmes
communication
|reasoning
|academic
|consequences
Définition
a result or implication that something necessarily has
Something that is involved in, required by, or follows necessarily from something else.
NOM
C2
TECHNICAL
2
Schéma d’usage :
entailment between [statements]; entailment from [premises] to [conclusion]; [statement] is an entailment of [statement]
In the sentence “Maria bought a car,” there is an entailment that Maria bought a vehicle.
A „Maria vett egy autót” mondat logikai következménye, hogy Maria vett egy járművet.
The entailment fails because the conclusion could be false even if the premise is true.
A logikai következményviszony nem áll fenn, mert a konklúzió hamis lehet akkor is, ha a premissza igaz.
Students learned how to identify entailment between pairs of sentences.
Exemples pédagogiques
“All cats are animals” gives the entailment that a cat is an animal.
A „Minden macska állat” állításból logikailag következik, hogy egy macska állat.
If the first sentence is true, the entailment makes the second sentence true too.
Ha az első mondat igaz, akkor a logikai következmény miatt a második is igaz.
Erreur fréquente :
In this sense, entailment is stronger than a suggestion or guess; the second statement must follow from the first.
Sens
Truth-guaranteeing logical relation
Collocations
logical entailment
|semantic entailment
|entailment relation
|valid entailment
|one-way entailment
|mutual entailment
|test for entailment
|entailment from premises
|entailment between sentences
|the entailment holds
Synonymes
logical consequence (the standard term in formal logic)
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implication (broader and sometimes less strict)
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inference (focuses on the act of drawing the conclusion)
Antonymes
contradiction (a relation where statements cannot both be true)
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non-entailment (the absence of a necessary logical relation)
Thèmes
logic
|linguistics
|philosophy
|semantics
|reasoning
Définition
a logical connection where one statement must be true if another statement is true
A relation between statements in which the truth of one statement guarantees the truth of another.
NOM
C2
LEGAL
3
hitbizomány
C2
Schéma d’usage :
an entailment on [property]; break an entailment; property subject to entailment
The entailment kept the estate within the eldest son’s line.
A hitbizomány miatt a birtok az elsőszülött fiú ágán maradt.
Nineteenth-century novels often turn on an entailment that prevents daughters from inheriting land.
A 19. századi regények cselekménye gyakran egy olyan hitbizomány körül forog, amely megakadályozza, hogy a lányok földet örököljenek.
Lawyers tried to break the entailment so the family could sell the property.
Exemples pédagogiques
The entailment meant that only the male heir could inherit the house.
A hitbizomány azt jelentette, hogy a házat csak a fiúági örökös örökölhette.
Erreur fréquente :
This sense is mostly historical. In property law and older novels, the related noun entail is also common.
Sens
Restricted inheritance of property
Collocations
property entailment
|family entailment
|strict entailment
|estate entailment
|break an entailment
|property subject to entailment
|inheritance entailment
Synonymes
entail (the more traditional legal noun for this arrangement)
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fee tail (a more technical property-law term)
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settlement (broader; can refer to other legal arrangements for property)
Antonymes
fee simple (full ownership that can usually be sold or inherited freely)
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absolute ownership (ownership without this kind of inheritance restriction)
Thèmes
law
|property
|inheritance
|history
Définition
an old legal rule that controls who can inherit a family property
A legal arrangement that makes land or property pass only to a particular line of heirs and prevents it from being freely sold or left by will.
Grammaire
Forme canonique
entailment
API
GB/ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
US/ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
Syllabes et accentuation
en - tail - ment (3 syllabes)
Stress on 1st syllable (en)
Formes du mot
Noun
- Base: entailment
- Plural: entailments
Expressions
logical entailment
1/lˈɑd͡ʒɪkəl ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
fixed phrase
technical
Formal logical consequence
a strict logical link where the conclusion must be true if the premises are true
Exemples
- The proof establishes logical entailment from the axioms to the theorem.
- There is no logical entailment from “Some students passed” to “All students passed.”
Exemples pédagogiques
- Logical entailment means the conclusion must follow.
- The teacher asked us to check the logical entailment.
mutual entailment
1/mjˈut͡ʃuəl ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
fixed phrase
technical
Two-way necessary implication
when two statements each make the other necessarily true
Exemples
- If two translations show mutual entailment, they preserve the same core meaning.
- The sentences “The glass is half full” and “The glass is not less than half full” do not always have mutual entailment in ordinary conversation.
Exemples pédagogiques
- Mutual entailment means both sentences imply each other.
semantic entailment
1/sɪmˈæntɪk ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
fixed phrase
technical
Meaning-based necessary implication
a meaning relation where one sentence makes another sentence necessarily true
Exemples
- The semantic entailment from “Tom is a bachelor” to “Tom is unmarried” depends on the meaning of bachelor.
- Linguists use semantic entailment to test how sentence meanings are related.
Exemples pédagogiques
- “She whispered” has the semantic entailment that she spoke quietly.
textual entailment
1/tˈɛkst͡ʃˌuəl ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
fixed phrase
technical
Text-supported inference relation
when a computer system decides that one piece of text shows another statement is true
Exemples
- The model was tested on textual entailment: from “A woman is slicing onions,” it should infer “A person is preparing food.”
- Textual entailment datasets are widely used to evaluate natural-language understanding systems.
Exemples pédagogiques
- The AI task included textual entailment questions.