| 单词 | implicit definition |
| 释义 | > as lemmasimplicit definition a. Implied though not plainly expressed; naturally or necessarily involved in, or capable of being inferred from, something else. implicit function (see quot. 1892). implicit definition = contextual definition. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [adjective] covert1393 sidelinga1500 implieda1535 insinuate1534 understood1576 implicative1602 insinuated1605 reserved1607 whispered1608 interpretative1610 implicit1613 tacit1637 tacid1651 adumbrative1751 inexplicit1827 inexpress1871 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > an explanation, definition > [noun] > contextual definition in use1910 contextual definition1934 implicit definition1959 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 366 Magike..which is by explicite or implicite compact with Divels. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 133 And the King of France, had with his promises, and some implicite threats, commended his Brother herein. a1671 T. Fairfax Let. in Nugæ Antiquæ (1769) I. 57 Yet, because it is but implicit, I send again to know more clearly. 1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 237 The Scripture-proofs of the Eternity of God the Son, are..either implicite and indirect, or explicite and direct. 1816 tr. S. F. Lacroix Elem. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus 160 Treating the subordinate variables as implicit functions of the independent ones. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. ii. 26 Might she not be going in to buy something which had struck her fancy? This implicit falsehood passed through her mind. 1892 J. Edwards Differential Calculus (ed. 2) i. §8. 3 If the function be not expressed directly in terms of the independent variable..the function is said to be implicit. 1959 K. R. Popper Logic of Sci. Discov. iii. 72 Sometimes the axioms are described as ‘implicit definitions’ of the ideas which they introduce. 1961 E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. v. 95 The fundamental assumptions of the theory provide only implicit definitions for the theoretical notions employed in them. 1973 A. Quinton Nature of Things ix. 279 We can thus define a logical term as one whose meaning is wholly specified by implicit definitions. < as lemmas |
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