implicit

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
implicit /ɪmˈplɪsɪt/

▶adjective

• 1 implied though not directly expressed.

• 2 (implicit in) always to be found in.

• 3 with no qualification or question: an implicit faith in God.

• 4 Mathematics (of a function) not expressed directly in terms of independent variables.

– derivatives
implicitly adverb,
implicitness noun.

– origin C16: from Fr. implicite or L. implicitus, later form of implicatus ‘entwined’, past part. of implicare (see imply).