implicit function

[ im-plis-it fuhngk-shuhn ]

nounMathematics.
  1. a function having the dependent variable not explicitly expressed in terms of the independent variables, as x2 + y2 = 1.

Origin of implicit function

1
First recorded in 1815–25

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