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tac·it

 (tăs′ĭt)
adj.
1. Not spoken: indicated tacit approval by smiling and winking.
2. Implied by or inferred from actions or statements: Management has given its tacit approval to the plan.
3. Archaic Not speaking; silent.
[Latin tacitus, silent, past participle of tacēre, to be silent.]
tac′it·ly adv.
tac′it·ness n.
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tacit

(ˈtæsɪt)
adj
1. implied or inferred without direct expression; understood: a tacit agreement.
2. (Law) created or having effect by operation of law, rather than by being directly expressed
[C17: from Latin tacitus, past participle of tacēre to be silent]
ˈtacitly adv
ˈtacitness n
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tac•it

(ˈtæs ɪt)

adj.
1. understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval.
2. silent; saying nothing: a tacit partner.
3. unvoiced or unspoken: a tacit prayer.
[1595–1605; < Latin tacitus silent, past participle of tacēre to be silent]
tac′it•ly, adv.
tac′it•ness, n.
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tacenda, tacit - Tacenda are things not to be mentioned or made public—things better left unsaid; tacit means "unspoken, silent" or "implied, inferred."
See also related terms for implied.

tacit

- One of its early meanings was "wordless, noiseless," from Latin tacere, "be silent."
See also related terms for silent.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.tacit - implied by or inferred from actions or statements; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement"
understood, silent
implicit, inexplicit - implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something; "an implicit agreement not to raise the subject"; "there was implicit criticism in his voice"; "anger was implicit in the argument"; "the oak is implicit in the acorn"
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tacit

adjective implied, understood, implicit, silent, taken for granted, unspoken, inferred, undeclared, wordless, unstated, unexpressed a tacit admission that a mistake had been made
stated, spoken, explicit, expressed, spelled-out
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tacit

adjective
1. Not voiced or expressed:
silent, undeclared, unexpressed, unsaid, unspoken, unuttered, unvoiced, wordless.
2. Conveyed indirectly without words or speech:
implicit, implied, inferred, understood, unsaid, unspoken, unuttered, wordless.
Idiom: taken for granted.
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Translations
äänetönhiljainen
non-verbaalstilzwijgend

tacit

[ˈtæsɪt] ADJ → tácito
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tacit

[ˈtæsɪt] adj → tacite
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tacit

adj → stillschweigend
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tacit

[ˈtæsɪt] adj → tacito/a
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Casaubon did not question her further, but he felt sure that she had wished to know what had passed between Lydgate and himself "She knows that I know," said the ever-restless voice within; but that increase of tacit knowledge only thrust further off any confidence between them.
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KM literature explains two broad categories of knowledge known as explicit and tacit knowledge (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995).
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The theory of knowledge creation suggests that in socialization conversion of tacit knowledge to tacit knowledge occurs; in externalization tacit knowledge is converted to explicit knowledge; whereas in combination explicit knowledge converts into explicit knowledge; and finally in internalization explicit knowledge gets converted into tacit knowledge [21].
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In the first place, what Oakeshott calls "practical knowledge" in his seminal essay "Rationalism in Politics" (1947) seems very similar to what Gascoigne and Thornton, following Polanyi, call tacit knowledge. It would therefore have been interesting to learn how our authors think Oakeshott's views are related both to their own views and to the views of Ryle, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Polanyi (whom Oakeshott cites with warm approval in "Rationalism in Politics").
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The well-known SECI model of the knowledge creating process first proposed by Nonaka (1991), describes how explicit and tacit knowledge is generated, transferred, and recreated in organizations.
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