Definition of implicit
1a
: capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied
an implicit assumption Still another problem for Middle America was how corporations … were allowed to breach the implicit social contract of the postwar era.— Kevin Phillips
— compare explicit sense 1a
b
: present but not consciously held or recognized
implicit attitudes implicit racism
— see also implicit bias
b
of a mathematical function
: defined by an expression in which the dependent variable and the one or more independent variables are not separated on opposite sides of an equation — compare explicit sense 4
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The first known use of implicit was in 1613
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