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Implicits are an extremely powerful feature of Scala. In terms of mechanics, they are based on the following:Implicit definitions: method, val, or object definitions marked with the implict keyword.Implicit conversions (also called view conversions in this post): conversions of a method call receiver: if a non-existent method m1 is called on an object of type X, the compiler makes an attempt to