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Answer for the clue "Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) ", 10 letters:
entailment

Word definitions for entailment in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entailment \En*tail"ment\, n. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent. The condition of being entailed. A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. --R. L. Dugdale.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In pragmatics ( linguistics ), entailment is the relationship between two sentences where the truth of one (A) requires the truth of the other (B). For example, the sentence (A) The president was assassinated. entails (B) The president is dead. Notice also ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications" [syn: deduction , implication ]

Usage examples of entailment.

His oldest son Trewe would eventually come into total possession, by the rigid entailment laws of Thaery.

All titles, lands, revenues, wardships, and entailments attached to Remmington are yours, and will pass to your heir upon Kenric's death, in accordance with the rules of all other baronies of this land.

Its structures would long ago have been demolished to clear space for larger, more useful buildings, but for various entailments that prevented change.