Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Entailment \En*tail"ment\, n.
   1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and
      directing the mode of descent.

   2. The condition of being entailed.

   3. A thing entailed.

            Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an
            ever weakening force.                 --R. L.
                                                  Dugdale.

Source : WordNet®

entailment
     n : something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied);
         "his resignation had political implications" [syn: {deduction},
          {implication}]