Meaning of implicit in English

implicit

adjective

/ɪmˈplɪs.ɪt/ us

/ɪmˈplɪs.ɪt/

implicit adjective (NOT DIRECT)

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He interpreted her comments as an implicit criticism of the government.

Implicit in the poem's closing lines are the poet's own religious doubts.

felt by someone or influencing them without them being aware of it:

The experiment was designed to measure implicit racial bias.

Egalitarian intentions are not enough to protect against the effect of implicit attitudes.

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The assumption implicit in this complaint is that if police departments had more money, they would be able to cut crime.
This was seen by investors as an implicit guarantee of support.
There are cultural values that drive our behaviour in an implicit, subliminal, unconscious way.

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Digressing and being indirect or evasive

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implicit adjective (COMPLETE)

complete and without any doubts:

All her life she had implicit faith in socialism.

implicit trust/obedience

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Complete and whole

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implicit

adjective

/ɪmˈplɪs·ɪt/

implicit adjective (SUGGESTED)

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We interpreted his silence as implicit agreement.

Some reporters thought there was an implicit threat in the president’s speech.

implicit adjective (COMPLETE)

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(esp. of trust and belief) complete and without any doubts:

implicit faith

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However, retaliation against implicit environmental subsidies is not permitted under these rules.

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Our point here is simply that it makes little sense to try to maintain that the explicit representations are abstract and the implicit are not.

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We have shown that the analysis by the meshless approach is suitable for objects represented as implicit surface models.

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For the time being, it is an implicit assumption in our formalism that remains to be confirmed.

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One hundred and thirty-two students were randomly assigned to three groups (explicit, implicit and control).

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The prevalence of politeness indicates submission to implicit power difference between teachers and students.

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The implicit memory tasks may also rely more on the encoded meaning of concepts than on the perceptual record of the items.

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The problem is that this isn't obviously either explicit or implicit, as those terms are understood in picture (1).

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This points to the importance of prior knowledge in implicit learning.

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The challenge for the wider community is to recognise the innate dignity of the dying, a recognition implicit in the rituals of some cultures.

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Activity (i) relies mostly on datamining functions and algorithms that extract implicit knowledge from raw data by performing aggregation and statistical analysis on the database.

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They again found that the implicit standards were largely exonormative.

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We explain the mapping types: explicit/ implicit, static/dynamic.

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An assumption implicit in this 'safety-first' principle is that slow rehydration, if not beneficial, at least is not damaging to the partially dehydrated tissue.

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Cut-elimination is a completeness theorem (the real one indeed!), saying that the explicit approach is as strong as the implicit one.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

含蓄的, 不明言的，含蓄的, 完全的…

Meaning of implicit in English

implicit adjective (NOT DIRECT)

implicit adjective (COMPLETE)

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implicit adjective (SUGGESTED)

implicit adjective (COMPLETE)

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