[ɪmˈplɪsɪt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- suggested though not directly expressed
(e.g: comments seen as implicit criticism of the policies)

- always to be found in; essentially connected with
(e.g: the values implicit in the school ethos)

- with no qualification or question; absolute
(e.g: an implicit faith in God)

- (of a function) not expressed directly in terms of independent variables


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Origin:
late 16th century: from French implicite or Latin implicitus, later form of implicatus ‘entwined’, past participle of implicare (see imply)