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What does implicit mean?

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Adjective
  1. Implied indirectly, without being directly expressed
  2. Contained in the essential nature of something but not openly shown
  3. Having no reservations or doubts; unquestioning or unconditional; usually said of faith or trust.
  4. (obsolete) entangled, twisted together.
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As is true in society, an implicit social contract serves as the basis for maintaining order in schools.
I have further narrowed the field of important questions by following some implicit principles.
However, in recent decades the implicit analysis this approach provides has been greatly strengthened by the more explicit case-study method.
It is clearly implicit in the Tribunal's findings that Mr Rihal was given a lower score as a result of his race.
That piercing insight is not included in her Critical Editions though it is implicit in the pages reprinted from her own perceptive book.
What is the point of having a family if there's so much evil and devilry implicit in it all?

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