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implicit differentiation

–noun Mathematics.
a method of finding the derivative of an implicit function by taking the derivative of each term with respect to the independent variable while keeping the derivative of the dependent variable with respect to the independent variable in symbolic form and then solving for that derivative.

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1890–95
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implicit differentiation  
n.  The process of computing the derivative of an implicit function.
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