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implicit function
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implicit function
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A function whose relation to the variable is given by an equation for which the function has not been solved explicitly. For example, in the equation x2 + y2 = 1, y is an implicit function of x.


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In the immune system, self is implicitly defined as everything that is both frequent and harmless.
The 'Britain' of the title is implicitly defined throughout the collection as English and metropolitan; indeed, to be precise, London.
They leave the properties of the implicitly defined quantity indexes for the reader to infer.
 
 
 
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