What's the difference between Kapt and Implementation in Gradle when declaring dependecies using them?

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What is the difference between kapt and implementation in Gradle when declaring dependencies and when should one be used over another?

Example:

//Room Components
implementation "androidx.room:room-runtime:$rootProject.roomVersion"
kapt "androidx.room:room-compiler:$rootProject.roomVersion"

// dagger
implementation "com.google.dagger:dagger:$rootProject.ext.daggerVersion"
kapt "com.google.dagger:dagger-android processor:$rootProject.ext.daggerVersion"
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