implicit: Meaning and Definition of

im•plic•it

1. implied, rather than expressly stated: implicit agreement.
2. unquestioning or unreserved; absolute: implicit trust; implicit obedience; implicit confidence.
3. potentially contained (usually fol. by in): to bring out the drama implicit in the occasion.
4. (of a function) having the dependent variable not explicitly expressed in terms of the independent variables, as x + y = 1. Cf. explicit (def. 5).
5. entangled.